MURDER & SUICIDE.
(BY ELECTRIC TKEECIRAPII. —COPYRIGHT.)
Melbourne, November 13. A skxsa.tional shootiugcase oecured to-day in the principal street of Sandhurst.
O'Keefe, a railway contractor, and Russell, a sub-contractor, met in the street this morning, and Russell drew a revolver oil O'Keefe, and fired two shots at him.
The nvn then rushed at each other, and before the bystanders could interfere, Russell again drew the revolver, and fired again on O'Keefe, and smashad the latter's frontal bone.
Russell turned his revolver on himself and blew his own brains out
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2552, 17 November 1888, Page 2
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88MURDER & SUICIDE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2552, 17 November 1888, Page 2
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