[Editor: This article, regarding a murder-suicide, was published in The Yass Courier and General Advertiser for the Southern District of New South Wales (Yass, NSW), 2 December 1926.]
Tenterfield tragedy.
At the inquest at Tenterfield regarding the deaths of Constable Milton and his family, Mary Ann Thelma Sewell, 17½ years of age, said that she had been employed by the Miltons, but she had left in consequence of trouble with Mrs Milton in regard to Milton’s relations with witness.
After leaving, witness had nothing to do with Milton until last Wednesday, when she had an interview with him and told him that he was the father of her child and that she was going to take proceedings against him. He denied everything. Witness said that Milton was very nervous and he was trembling. Her child had been born on November 5, and her father and witness had interviewed Milton on Wednesday.
The Coroner found that the wife and three children had been murdered by Milton, and that the latter had committed suicide.
Source:
The Yass Courier and General Advertiser for the Southern District of New South Wales (Yass, NSW), 2 December 1926, p. 5
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