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Mole Creek Tragedy
MOTHER, CHILD
SHOT DEAD
DAISY MAY HARRISON (42) and her daughter Sheila (12)
were found at their home near Mole Creek yesterday morn-
ing with bullet wounds in the head, and died shortly afterwards.
MRS HARRISON, who had been
in ill-health for a number of
years, was found by her husband,
Rennell Harrison, when he entered
her bedroom with a glass of milk
at 7.45 am,
He and an employee had just
completed milking cows in a yard
about 150 yards from the house.
Lying beside the woman's body
was a .22 rifle.
Mr Harrison entered his children's
bedroom across the hall and saw his
elder daughter, Sheila, in bed with
a bullet wound in her head.
Still asleep beside her fatally
wounded sister was Joan Frances
Harrison (9), who was thought at
first to have been wounded, but
was found lo be unharmed. Two
spent cartridge cases found in the
children's bedroom indicate the
possibility that two shots were
fired,
The matter was reported to Tpr
L. P. Iles, at Mole Creek, and he in-
formed Dr J. R. Robertson, of Del-
oraine, and called the ambulance at
Latrobe. With the District Bush
Nurse (Sister Murphy) he went to
the Harrison home.
The small weatherboard farm-
house is in an isolated position on
a by-road connected with the main
road between Chudleigh and Mole
Creek.
When Tpr Iles and Sister Murphy
arrived at the home at 8.15 am,
both the injured people were still
alive, but Sheila was dead when Dr
Robertson arrived and her mother
died at 9 am.
The bodies were taken to the mor-
tuary at Deloraine, and a report
made to the Coroner (Mr R. P. Fur-
mage), who ordered a post mortem
examination.
An inquest will be opened at- Del-
oraine this morning.
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