STABBING AT AUCKLAND

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25994, 23 December 1949, Page 8

STABBING AT AUCKLAND

SECOND CHILD DIES MOTHER’S CONDITION STILL SERIOUS (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 22. Another child has died as a result of the wounds he suffered in a stabbing affray at Auckland yesterday. He IS *Peter Harve- Wingrove, aged i°ur> a child of Mrs Barbara Map Win grove, a widow, aged 24, of 44 Sun y brae crescent, Westmere. Mrs Wingrove, who, with her three children was found stabbed in a ho at Cook street, is reported by tne Auckland Hospital to be in a serious condition. The condition of the only 'surviving child, Stephanie, aged two, is reported to be satisfactory. Inquests into the deaths of the two children were opened by the Coroner (Mr Alfred Addison) to-day. Mrs Minnie Matthews, mother of Mrs Wingrove, said that when she left for work at 7.40 a.m. yesterday her daughter, Barbara, was in bed. The two boys were playing iyith toys on the bedroom floor. “When I returned home about noon I found my daughter lying in the pantry at the end of the hall,” the witness added. “She was unconscious. I attended to her and then looked for the children. Stephen was lying on the kitchen floor dead. I called to Peter and when he called I found him under a bed in my son’s bedroom. He was saturated in blood. He was still alive, but unconscious, and died shortly after arrival at the hospital.” The Coroner adjourned the inquests to a date to be arranged.