SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
Doublo Murder and Suioido by a HalfCaste
New Plymouth^ April 7. News hns just reached here that Mrs Plumriilge (bettor known as Miss Higgins), a half-caste, well known in Wellington and Auckland, poisoned herself and two children with strychnine at about half-past eight o'clock this morning. It appeared sho came into New Plymouth and purchased five drachms of strychnino on Friday lastj to poison rats, as sho said. An inquest will bo held to-morrow.
Another Account,
OrimAKE, April 7.
Mrs Plumridge, a half-caste, poisoned hGrself and two children here last evening. Her brother, George Taylor, was in tho houso, and also a Maori boy named Touri. Taylor heard ono of tho boys retching, and went in to see him. Mrs Plumbridgo sent him to the constabulary camp for assistance, but did not say anything about poison, and when ho returned he found the mother and tho other boy poisoned also. Some letters, and a written statement as to the causo of the poisoning, wore loft by the unfortunate woman, which were taken possession of by the police
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4353, 26 April 1884, Page 4
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180SAD DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4353, 26 April 1884, Page 4
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