DOUBLE MURDER.
Sydney, March 12. King, the sexton of the Rook wood Cemetery, and his wife were found shot this ofteruoon. The man was dead. The woman has made the following statemeut: " Her husband went outside, and the murderer, who had been evidently lying in wait, shot him. The perpetrator is said to be a grave-digger named Cusick. He rushed into the bedroom, saying: " Why was I discharged ?" and then fired and shot the woman in the head.and fired a second into the back. He reappeared a few minutes later, and the woman being alive, crying on the floor, he said, *' What, not dead yet?" and then shot her through the temple." The murderer and his victims were hitherto on the warmest terms of friendship. The woman is still alive. There is no trace of the murderer.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 259, 15 March 1898, Page 2
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