MAN RUNS AMOK.
MURDER AND INCENDIARISM. SHOCKING AFFAIR AT VANCOUVER. (Australian Press Association.) Received September 16, 10.55 a.m. VANCOUVER, Sept. 16. William Campbell Phillips, an exserviceman suffering from sliell-shoclt, ran amok to-day with a hatchet. Phillips killed his daughter Joan, aged ten, his son Eric, aged four, slashed liis wife’s face and head, and set fire to the house. Ho then committed suicide by cutting liis throat. Mrs Phillips is in hospital in an unconscious condition and may succumb to the injuries she received. She saved her life by jumping from a window on the second storey. . . . On a chair beside Phillips s bed was a magazine with the pages pressed back at a story entitled: “Triple Murder”—By Carolyn Wells.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 7
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120MAN RUNS AMOK. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 247, 17 September 1929, Page 7
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