Drowning Of Three Children Alleged
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8/p.m.) MONTREAL, July 11. A 28-year-old mother admitted today that she waded into a lake witn her three small children and drowned them one by one, police said. The mother, Mrs Rita Bergeron, a farmer’s wife, was arrested yesterday shortly after the bodies of her children—Paulette, aged 5, Andre, aged 3, and Joanne, aged 2—were recovered from Lake Temiskaming, some 250 miles north-west of Ottawa. Detective Lawrence St. Eloi said Mrs Bergeron told him that she drove her children to the lake in her husband’s truck. She waded in with her children, and tossed them, one by one. into deep water. Then she returned to a house in the village of Ville. Marie, where police found her shivering and soaked.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 8
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