CHILDREN KILLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 January 1929, Page 7

CHILDREN KILLED

A HOMELAND HORROR .

EX-POLICEMAN’S DEED ?

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, January 25.

In consequence of a note, left at the Romford police station, and. sent by an unknown man from the railway station, the police, after many hours’ search of the fields, found four children with their throats cut in a shed, and laid out as though buried. The police are searching for Sidney Gray, father of two of the children,, the others being children of Gray’s sister, aged 2J to 6J years. Gray was formerly of the Metropolitan police, but was pensioned owing to injuries.

ACCIDENTALLY POISONED.

A CAMBRIDGE TRAGEDY.

(Per Press Association.)

CAMBRIDGE, January 26.

Under tragic circumstances, the death occurred of Betty Nina James, the two-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs R. H. James, farmers, French Pass Road, Cambridge. Last evening, while the parents were at the milking shed a quarter of a mile away, two children found a tin of cyano-gas used for poisoning rabbits.

Hearing the children crying, a domestic found the little girl gasping for breath, while a little boy was throwing dirt, mixed with gas, over the face of the child. A doctor was immediately summoned, but life was then extinct.

At the inquest, the verdict was death by misadventure, through being accidentally poisoned, no blame beingattachable to anyone. The Coroner commented on the necessity of keeping such deadly poison beyond the range of children.