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    1. Charles Mills, 60, told police he shot his elder sister Kate Mills, 63, in the head with a rifle because he believed she had taken a fatal overdose and was suffering. 2. An autopsy found Kate Mills died from extensive skull fractures caused by gunshot wounds to the head. 3. Charles Mills had been her primary caretaker for years and said she had been suffering from insomnia, headaches and deafness since their mother died in 1931.

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    1. Charles Mills, 60, told police he shot his elder sister Kate Mills, 63, in the head with a rifle because he believed she had taken a fatal overdose and was suffering. 2. An autopsy found Kate Mills died from extensive skull fractures caused by gunshot wounds to the head. 3. Charles Mills had been her primary caretaker for years and said she had been suffering from insomnia, headaches and deafness since their mother died in 1931.

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    1. Charles Mills, 60, told police he shot his elder sister Kate Mills, 63, in the head with a rifle because he believed she had taken a fatal overdose and was suffering. 2. An autopsy found Kate Mills died from extensive skull fractures caused by gunshot wounds to the head. 3. Charles Mills had been her primary caretaker for years and said she had been suffering from insomnia, headaches and deafness since their mother died in 1931.

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    1. Charles Mills, 60, told police he shot his elder sister Kate Mills, 63, in the head with a rifle because he believed she had taken a fatal overdose and was suffering. 2. An autopsy found Kate Mills died from extensive skull fractures caused by gunshot wounds to the head. 3. Charles Mills had been her primary caretaker for years and said she had been suffering from insomnia, headaches and deafness since their mother died in 1931.

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    Herald (Melbourne, Vic.

    : 1861 - 1954), Monday 15 February 1943, page 3

    "MERCY KILLING" PLEA


    MADE, POLICE SAY
    Man On Sister's Death
    BENDIGO. Charles Mills, 60, military, pensioner,
    —

    fired four shots into his elder sister's head because he


    believed she had taken a fatal dose of sleeping powders,
    he is alleged to have told the police.
    The alleged statement was ten rifle about 12 months My
    ago.
    dered evidence
    as at the inquest sister was frightened that she was
    today on Kate Mills, 63. music going mad. and she made me
    teacher, who was found dead In promise that I would not let her
    her bedroom of a house in Lucan go into a home. So I bought the
    Street. Bendlgo, on Sunday. Janu rifle with the intention of shoot
    ary 31. If she showed of
    ing her signs
    Arrested on a charge of murder, going mad. I kept the rifle In
    Mills was present In custody. my room unknown to her.".
    Opening the police case, Mr A. J.
    Aira said Charles Mills had done I
    Dr. C. H. Molllson. government
    practically all the housework and I
    pathologist, said that a post-
    was most attentive to his sister. On mortem examination proved ex
    the dav before her death Miss tensive fracturing of the skull fol
    Mills told neighbors she had been lowing gunshot wounds tn the
    suffering from the usual head head, which caused death.
    noises Rnd sleeping badly. Charles Anthony Taylor, gov
    Ne. day (Sunday), neighbors ernment analyst, said that an ex
    amination of the stomach fluid
    saw Charles Mills, but heard no
    He said si : revealed a drug. Although he was
    thing ol his sister.
    was asleep. Inot able to calculate how much
    First Constable A. E. Bond said had been taken, he considered It
    Mills called at the police station to be more than a seven grain
    sister this dose:
    and said: "I shot my I

    afternoon." He later made a Mulqueen,


    Joseph of Bridge
    'Street, Bendlgo, undertaker, said
    statement.
    ithat at 5.10 p.m. on January 31,
    In his alleged statement Mills
    said:
    '

    mother died In Charles Mills called at his office


    "My |
    for his sister's burial.
    sister then had to arrange
    1931. and my a
    He asked the name of the doctor
    nervous breakdown, and ever since
    who had attended his sister, and
    then I have had to, look alter her. will be
    Mills replied, "There no
    her breakdown, she has been
    from head
    need for any doctor's certificate."
    suffering Insomnia,
    and has been
    He adde. "I have done away with
    noises' and deafness, her." When told that he was
    blind for tlie past five years." i

    the
    !

    talking foolishly. Mills said, "It Is


    Continuing alleged state- lie truth.
    t

    ment. Mills said that on the Sun-


    i She has been suffering
    j
    Tor 10 years, so I did away witn
    day lie went to his sister's room
    her." Mills stated that he was
    about midday, and noticed her
    on his way to the police station to
    breathing heavily. He saw two
    .report the matter.
    uoles and several papers that ap
    The Inquest Is not finished.
    peared to have contained drugs oil
    the dressing table at the side of
    the bed.
    "One note said. 'Dear Charlie, I
    can't stand It
    any longer. Good
    bye. Kate.' The other note was
    addressed to the Coroner 'Mr D.
    ).
    Duagani. It read, 'I can't sleep
    head noises. I am
    with the ending
    it. Kale Mills.'"

    "SISTER UNCONSCIOUS"
    Mills, continuing, said his sister
    then appeared to be in a dying
    condition and was unconscious. He
    was about to take a bath when
    he heard a crash In his sister's
    bedroom and found her lying on
    the floor gasping for breath.
    Mills added, I went into my
    bedroom and got my pearifie with
    the intention of putting an end
    to my sister's life and ending her
    I took about six cart
    misery.
    ridges from a box. loaded one into
    the breach of the rifle, and went
    Into my sister's bedroom, and
    holding the rifle about 9 Inches
    from her head. I pulled the
    trigger."
    Mills added that he repeated
    this three times.
    Concluding the alleged state
    ment. Mills said, "I bought the
    rifle about 12 months My
    ago.

    National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245959248

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