A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION),
[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright] Melbourne, January 1"2. A MURDER, surrounded with circumstances of a most painful character, is reported from Kerang, a post town of Gunflower about 195 miles to the northwest of the metropolis. A man named Clancy was beating his son, when tha latter's sister remonstrated with him. The father at once turned on the girl, and threatened to kill her, She ran for pretection to an elder brother, aged 25, who seized a gun and fired twice at his father, the shots taking effect, and the wounds proving fatal. The son who had fired the shots at once sought medical aid on behalf of his father, and also informed the police authorities of what had happened, when he was at onoe arrested on a charge of murder.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2420, 14 January 1888, Page 2
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135A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2420, 14 January 1888, Page 2
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