TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
MURDER AND SUICIDE
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT]
(Received Feb. 10, 9.25 p.m.)
ADELAIDE, Feb. 10. A tragedy is reported from Prospect. A coach builder named Frederick George Johnson quarrelled with his wife- regarding the transfer of property, and the wife obtained a summons under the Married ’Women's Protection Act. When this was served on him Johnson returned home and attacked his wife and two-year-old child with a razor, almost severing the child's head. He wounded his wife, but not seriously, and then cut his own throat. Johnson and the child are dead.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 11 February 1913, Page 5
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94TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3752, 11 February 1913, Page 5
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