SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
(BY ELECTUIC TKLEUKAPH—CCU'YBKiHT.) Sydney, May 1. A nouiiLE murder and suicide is reported from Pyrmont, one of the suburbs of Sydney. A commercial traveller named .fohn Monaghan took a revolver, and shot his wife, aged 21 years, thrice through the head, and his child, three years, also once. The injuries inflicted proved fatal in each case. Monaghan then committed suicide. The cause for the deed is attributed to domestic infelicity.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2624, 7 May 1889, Page 2
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72SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2624, 7 May 1889, Page 2
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