TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
THREE CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED. THE FATHER ARRESTED. CUNITED PEES 3 ASSOCIATION-COPY aumr.) (Received July 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. A tenant of the top floor of a house in Hackney complained of an offensive smell, and an inspection disclosed the body of a nine months’ old child under'a loose board in one of the lower rooms, and the bodies of two children —twins, aged 21 years—behind the cellar walk
A young wooden-legged man named Frederick Robertson occupied the rooms with his wife and children until six .weeks ago, when the wife was removed to an infirmary owing to a breakdown in her health. Robertson then left the house, telling the neighbours that the children had been placed tinder the care of friends. It is stated that he was worried over liis wife’s illness. Robertson has been arrested.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3995, 28 July 1913, Page 5
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141TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3995, 28 July 1913, Page 5
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