DREADFUL DEED

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 November 1925, Page 9

DREADFUL DEED

THREE CHILDREN KILLED. TRAGEDY AT DUNEDIN. A NEIGHBOUR’S DISCOVERY. (.BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION .) DUNEDIN, Nov. 9. A tragedy involving tlie live* qi tinee young cmiuren oecurreu at S.iiU o cioeii this morning at zS ungiiton totreet, tvaikorai. Uiure Lindsay Hart, aged u, Andrew Hart, aged d, i\ola mart, age a 14 months, were tound with tneir throats cut. The first intimation of the affair vvte when the mother, Ellen lirirt, threw a stone on the rooi of Air. Upton’s house, adjoining, and asked Mrs. Upton to come in with her. They weut into Hart's house and Mrs Hart said: “i have killed my kids. 1 loved those kids.”

Mns. Upton called her husband, who found that all the children* were dead. The two boys were lying on the mat in the kitchen and the baby was found in its pram with its head almost severed. The tragedy must have occurred just after Mrs. Hart’s husband, a carpenter, had left for work. The bodies were removed to the morgue and Mrs. Hart was taken to the police station. From certain superficial gashes in Mrs. Hart’s throat, it is gathered that she attempted to kill herself with the razor, that was used with such fatal results. The father, Alexander Hart, is in an absolutely collapsed state and the police have not obtained his statement. .