MURDERED HIS CHILDREN.
AN INSANE PARENT. ("Sydney Sun" Special Service.) LONDON. July 29. A young, wooden-legged man named Frederick Robertson appeared at the Hackney Police Court to-day to answer to a charge of murdering his three children, whose bodies were found behind the walls of his house. Two constables gave evidence that the accused wept when he was arrested, and asserted that he abandoned the children in a street near Homerton Workhouse.
The prisoner was remanded under mcdi cal observation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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MURDERED HIS CHILDREN.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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