A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
INFANTICIDE AND SUICIDE.
Per Press Association
INVERCARGILL, April 8. . A shocking tragedy was enacted at South Invercargill early this morning, when James Reid Baxter, seed merchant, attempted to murder his wife and family. . Three of the children are dead, and the wife and two others hare been removed to the hospital in a critical condition. ' Baxter committed suicide by exploding a detonator cap. Later. The tragedy had evidently been prermeditated, as the victims were attacked while they were asleep, and Baxter used an axe.
Basil (aged nine), Roy (four), and Ronald (two).are dead.
Phyllis (eleven), the baby (six weeks) and the mother (37) are in the hospital. The chaiice of their recovery is slight.
A caller, getting no answer, commuaiicated with the police, who found the -victims in bed.
Baxter, aged 43, had a shop in town, carried on a nursery. There is no apparent motive for the •crime.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7457, 8 April 1908, Page 3
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