FAMILY TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 11

FAMILY TRAGEDY

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DEAD

ANOTHER CHILD IN HOSPITAL

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

•HASTINGS, This Day.

A young married woman, Mrs. Anderson (Hastings), and her-four-year-old daughter died' under circumstances which point to poisoning. Her sou, aged six years, is an inmate of the Hastings Memorial Hospital recovering from the effects of poisoning.' , ,

The mother and her two children were discovered about 7 o'clock last night, all obviously in a serious condition,, the mother and the youngest child dying,-despite, the efforts of a doctor to save them. The boy responded un dor treatment, and is reported to bo in a satisfactory condition. , Mrs*. Anderson, who,was the wife of William Herbert Anderson, was about 30 years of age. Her husband is at present on relief work at Hastings. The husband arid wife, together with their two children, lived in a room- at the residence of the husband's parents. Mrs. Anderson,. sen., hearing one of the children' crying, went to the room, of her danghter:iii-law, where she discovered both children and the deceased in circumstances which indicated poisoning. Mrs. Anderson, , jun., was writhing in agony, and the little girl, Verna, appeared to,bo dead. The husband was in town, and arrived home not long after the discovery was made.. Mrs. Anderson died soon after the doctor's arrival.

:it is understood that the deceased woman had been in ill health for some time, and- until recently had been an •inmate of. the Hastings Hospital. She had lately had a tendency to melancholia.