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A 8HOCKING TRAGEDY
WIFE ATTACKED WITII RAZO8t.
MURDER AND SLUICIDE.
Sydney, Aug. n.
A shocking double tragedy oC
curred yesterday at the house of a
settler named Bolton, near Erii
goonab Sttation, on the Murrum
hidgee River.
News of the tragedy reach' d.
Junec late last night, and the cort.
n.r, police sergeant and doctor, wih,
went out, found John Conquit and.
his wife dead, with their throat-.
cut.
It seems that Conquit, a half
caste, who is well-known in- the di,-
triet as an athlete, on Saturday
visited Junee to find his wife, wh,,
was not at his' house a't Ganma.in.
Not finding her at Junee, he went t,
Wagga, and - not finding . her at
Wagga, he went to the house of 1r .
and Mrs. Bolton, near Eringoonah.
He there met his wife, and after a
brief conversation attacked her-with
a razor, which he drew across her
throat,. severing the jugular vhin.
The woman died in a few minutes.
James Lonergan, brotheri of thc
,nurdered woman, who was clo(4.
by, tried to wrest the razor from-
Conquit, who seemed to have :sud
denly become insane. Lonergan?
.received a nasty' gash- on the hand.
Conquit, who was. almost drenchi.l
in his wifes blood, brought the.,.
razor to, his own throat, and in a
very .?hort time he also was dead.
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