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Invercargill Tragedy
LocationInvercargill, New Zealand
Date8 April 1908 (1908-04-08)
Attack type
Murder–suicide, familicide
WeaponsStove scraper, 12-gauge shotgun
Deaths7 (including the perpetrator)
PerpetratorJames Reid Baxter
MotiveUnknown
CoronerWilliam Anderson Stout

The Invercargill Tragedy was a familicide that took place in Invercargill, New Zealand on 8 April 1908. James Reid Baxter killed his wife and five children with an iron stove scraper before shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. It was the worst mass murder in Southland.[1]

  1. ^ Esler, Lloyd (7 December 2013). "First station in Southland". The Southland Times. Stuff.

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