TOOK RAZOR TO CHILDREN

Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 10

TOOK RAZOR TO CHILDREN

ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE CROWN SUGGESTS LENIENT VIEW [Per United Association.] HAMILTON. February 18, The case is proceeding in the Supremo Court of Petrina Louise Kui, ;of Cam bridge, before’ Mr Justice .-Fair with attempting, on December .24,. to murder her two half-caste Chinese children—Keith Leong Petersen and' Nancy Lee Petersen—and further with attempting to commit suicide. - - •• The Crown advised the jury that it might be wise to consider the case leniently. In opening ' the Crown’s case Mr Fitzgerald said that for the past six years accused had been living in Cambridge with Fong Sink Kui, and the two had posed as man and wife. They had two children, and since the lower court trial, the-two-had been married. Dr Henry Charlds Todd, of Cambridge, said that on December 24 he went to the kitchen ,of Fong Lee’s laundry in Empire street,: Cambridge. He found the accused and her two children with the front portion of .their clothes saturated- with blood. The boy was suffering from a single transverse cut, along the front of . the neck. Although" the windpipe and important vessels were not severed, the child was weak from loss of blood. The little girl was suffering from a similar wound, but not so serious, a cut on the nedk. ' Witness found accused' also suffering from a similar superficial wound, which was not serious. She was excited, and talked considerably. Witness did not think accused was intoxicated. She admitted to witness inflicting, the wounds with a razor,' and said she wished that she had made a bettor effort, but the razor was too blunt.