SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY.
DYNAMITE IN A LADY'S BED. Beaked, July SO, 10A0 tun. v" Sydney, July igfkr News has been received or"a sonsational tragedy at Paita. A New Caledonian convict named Picrcourt, eiupltyed on Jladamo Fracott's station, having been discharged for some offence, procured somo dynamite cartridges and placed thorn in tho lady's hed, when she was asleep, Her body was blown to fragments and her daughter, soven years' old, was soriously injured. Piercourt afterwards committed suicide by blowing bis own lioad to pieces with another cartridge.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5090, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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86SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5090, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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