TRAGIC DISCOVERY
WOMAN WITH THROAT WOUNDS
CHILDREN ALSO INJURED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 25,
_ While Christmas Eve merriment was at its height at Cambridge, a domestic tragedy was enacted in a back street near the heart of the town.
A white woman, Petrina Louise Petersen, 29 years of' age, was found with deep wounds inflicted upon heithroat. Beside her lay her two halfcaste Chinese children, Keith Leong Petersen, three years and one month, and Nancy Lee Petersen, one year and nine months, who were also suffering from throat wounds.
The condition of all three is not critical;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 12
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