KILLED HER CHILD
MOTHER'S CONFESSION
NEW YORK TRAGEDY
NEW YORK,' May 18.
The police, state, that Mrs. Helen Tiernaii, aged 25, a widowed embroidery worker, has confessed that she killed her daughter, whose,body was found in the woods yesterday, and attempted to kill her son. Believing that both were dead, she sprinkled petrol on the brushwood, ignited it, and fled.
Her motive,. it is stated,, was a desire to remarry and a belief that her apartment was too small for both the children and her prospective husband.
She stated: "I wanted to kill them, not to hurt them." .
Later she amended her confession, implicating her sweetheart. This the police are inclined to disbelieve. \ The woman's son, Jimmie, has recovered Sufficiently to say: "Mummy hit me and my sister." He is expected to be the principal witness :at his mother's trial for murder.
The body of a girl aged seven was found in the woods near a New York suburban settlement. The throat had been cut and an effort made to burn the body. A boy of-three was also found in a thicket with his throat gashed. Police found a breadknife and a pair of scissors, both stained with blood, and also a bottle quarter full of petrol.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 11
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