SHOCKING FATE
WIDOW AND CHILDREN
, TRAGEDY AT INVERCARGILL !p.A. INVERCARGILL, This Day. I A drowning tragedy in which a widow and four of her six young children lost, their lives occurred in the i Waihopai River, on the outskirts of Invercargill, on Saturday night. They iwere Emma McCrae Atkinson Robert!son, aged 37, the' mother. Struan Robertson (four). James Robertson Ufive), Nan Robertson (three), and Graham Robertson (two). Mrs. Robertson's, husband, James, died ten months ago. i Early on Saturday evening, according to the police, Mrs. Robertson took ithe children for a walk to a nearby bridge and dropped each child into the river, following herself. The eldest child, Joan Robertson (seven), and one of twin boys, Alister Robertson (four), were able to scramble ashore. The others sank immediately or were carried downstream by the fast-running current of the flooded river. The police recovered the bodies of the mother and Struan today.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 3
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151SHOCKING FATE Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 3
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