MURDER CHARGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 10

MURDER CHARGE.

. MRS. RAE TO STAND TRIAL. SHOOTING OF TOUR CHILDREN. INSANITY NOT CERTIFIED. \ 'By — Press Association • GORK, Tuesday. I The distiict cMionci todav found luat , tae lour r.iildrrii <>t Mr. and Air-. < .vorze > I Rao me: i««*:i death* through 'millet r wounds inflicted b\ tiieir mother, Tryr phena Clifford Rae. I Mr-.. Kae was then charged wit h the . murder of the children, and committed to the Supremo Court at lnverc.irgill for j trial. Vhe is to be kept under ob*erva--5 I tion meanwhile by nn-ntal exports. William Simpson Cunningham, farm I hand, mm that on April 11 la>t. in j respon-— to what Rao told him. l> • enI tered Rue"* hoii>«> and threv i-nildren lyiiiL' "ii a bed. They \» <-i, lit-a.i. and 1 another i-jii 1.1 wa- on the Uhl i\\ injj. Mr*. , Rae was ni~> o:: tho l*sl. Dr. .1. K. KortTr s.i:d that up found . J Mrs. Kae in ,i .*euii-eon»t\uu- condition, MiiTering from a wound under :hr ', j left breast, apparently iiiHicte,{ n\ .i | bullet. He dressed the wound an.l »a i i her removed to the Gore Hospital. He ' then examined the four children, wbo ail ' bad bullet wounds in their bodies. All j the wounds were discoloured black. j Giving evidence after Mrs. Rae had ' been charged with murder. Dr. P.o-ors : stated that the women a<i:nitte>l lo liiw shootir.p her children. Spvaking a> a r general piactitii-ner ,md from ,jfMir»rsl ' observation of Mis. Rae wlule >i :i,.spital. he -aiii he could nn n«i-it'»- to • her beinj: insane. I Sergeant Packer put in a -:n; •: ■■•••it I taken from Mis. Rae while she wa> in I ho-pital. Iμ this Mrs. Rae adni:;ied| J i hat *he s'.io: the children. She r<«f» rre.l | !at leiigtu to alleged domestic di-tnrb-j anors :hioui;h()iu her married life, rulI minntint: i'l her decision to s«hno« the , rhililren. She alleged cruelty against her husbainl, ami she also* admitted I aitempting to take her own life. I — i