FAMILY TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1913, Page 6

FAMILY TRAGEDY.

BABY'S HEAD ALMOST SEVERED.

A tragedy occurred in Jean Street; Welii"" mi. N T Wales, o<; .Sunday morning, March 30, as a result of which a child named Bertha Goole.v, 19 months old, lost its life, and its mother, Sarah Gooley, is now an inmate of the hospital, with severe injuries to her throat. The first intimation that anything untoward had happened was at. 3.30 a.m. The husband of Sarah Gooley, who occupied another room, was awakened by the unfortunate woman and told to look •to the child. At this time her own throat had been cut, and was bleeding profusely. On entering his wife's room the husband was horrified to find the youngest child lying on the bed, with it 3 throat cut from ear to ear, the head being almost severed. The police were called, ar.d on arrival discovered a blood-stained razor, with which, apparently, the injuries had been inflicted. In the same Tooni were three other children, two of whom were sleeping in the same bod as tho infant who was killed. The little one was rosarrted as the favourite child of the household.

The woman's injuries are not likely to prove fatal.