THE COLLINGWOOD TRAGEDY.
♦- A SENSATIONAL ENDING. MiuiioußNii, May 5. No trace has yet been found of Dooley, who murdered bis wife and inother-in-la\v,tliongli a report which has not been confirmed says ho committed suicide by jumping overboard from a harbor steamer Muiioukxe, May (i, The Collingwood tragedy ended as sensationally as it began. Whilst being hunted down by police Dooley took arsenic, and died shortly after ■ his arrest was elfected. 1 A letter was found in one of his p pockets stating that he was glad,,.of what he had done and accusing ifa wife of infidelity. Two 7r his wife's children were not >, his, and if he could have found their • father be would have killed him ! also. He regretted he bad struck i Neal.
Dooley went to the theatre the evening after the tragedy was committed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5018, 6 May 1895, Page 2
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137THE COLLINGWOOD TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5018, 6 May 1895, Page 2
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