ABSENTEE MOTHER
Children Gassed (N Z.P.A -Reuter— Capynghi) SYDNEY, May 11 Mrs Edna Hickey returned home from a shopping trip .today to find three of her children dead in their filled house. They were Ronald Hickey, aged 12. and his sisters. Anita. aged eight, and Dianne, aged four. Another sister, 11-year-old Lorraine, was revived by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation applied by two neighbours. Two other sisters, Prmela. aged three, and 11-months-■old Susan, were in another room and w r ere unharmed. Police said Mrs Hickey, who is aged 30. told them she left the house, tn the west (Sydney suburb f Liverpool. at 7 am She returned at 1030 am A neighbour, Mrs ivlaree Armstrong, said Mrs Hickey ran into her home and said: ' Lady. lady, help me. My kids are gassed.” Mrs Armstrong found four children lying on a bed aettee in a front room Police have ordered a check of the house’s gas system
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30129, 13 May 1963, Page 15
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