FAMILY TRAGEDY.
A VICTORIAN SENSATION
(Received December 5, 10.10 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, December o. A man named Frank Cooling, bis wife and three children were found dead with their throats cut, at Kyabram, 124 miles north of Melbourne. The case is evidently one of murder and suicide. Coojing was <a labourer, a quiet, hard-working man, born in /Kyabram district. Jealousy, quarrelling and law proceedings appear to have unhinged his mind. Two children awoke and found their father, mother and two brothers, aged respectively eleven and nine years, and a six weeks' old baby dead with their throats cut, lying on the floor of one of t3ie rooms. How the other two children escaped is remarkable. Blood was splashed on th6m. Av blood-(sfcainedl \lnzor was found near the body of Cooling, broken by
tho force with which it had been used. Cooling had apparently 'been shaving just before the tragedy occurred.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10496, 6 December 1911, Page 3
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149FAMILY TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10496, 6 December 1911, Page 3
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