A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
SON MURDERS FATHER AND... SISTERS. A COLD-BLOODED CRIME. BERLIN, Dec. 28. Joseph Racke, an undergraduate at Bonn, and son of a millionaire at Mayerfce, spent Christmas at home. He rose at 2 o’clock in the morning and stealthily stabbed to 'death his sleeping father and three, sisters, but the remainder o frith e household was not disturbed. Racke returned to bed and slept until the discovery was' made imrihe morning. He attributed the crime to his father refusing to give him large sums of money.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2386, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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88A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2386, 30 December 1908, Page 5
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