AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[Per s 3. Wairarapa ]
SHOOK INC TRAGEDY AT FOOT SCKAY.
Melbourne, October 14. A SHOCKING trngedy took place at Footscray this morning. A young married woman, named Mary Eliza George, drowned her infant in the underground tank, and then drowned herself. Her husband, Frederick George, who is engaged in a tannery, missed his wife and child, and subsequently discovered both dead in the tank. On searching, tho room, part of an illustrated paper was found with a few lines ot a story describing un old tragedy in Ireland, and referring to a murder and to the acts of a madman. On tho other side on the margin, in a woman's writing, wore the word?, "Fred, mad, mad." The deceased woman had shown no sign of madnes-s, and was always a careful mother, and h;-.i been on the best of terms with everybody. Two children are left, the eldeet of whom is four years old.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 247, 20 October 1886, Page 6
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