CHILDREN’S DEATHS
Police Inquiry Continues
Detectives yesterday con tinued inquiries into the ren at 95 Windermere road, deaths of two teen-age childBryndrwr, on Thursday night. The children, Eileen Rose Tozer, aged 15, and her brother, James Tozer, aged 13, were slain in their beds with an axe.
Their mother, Winifred Tozer, who was found near the gate of her home with her throat cut. is still in the Christchurch Hospital.
Policewomen are on rostered duty at Mrs Tozer’s bedside. Her condition last evening was satisfactory. Mr James Tozer, aged 57, who returned home at 11 p.m. on Thursday to find his wife suffering from a throat wound and his children dead, had been at a card party. An inquest into the death of the children was opened yesterday before the acting District Coroner (Mr P. A. Le Brun, J.P.).
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 1
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