TRAGEDY IN HOBART.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 187, 23 July 1912, Page 5

TRAGEDY IN HOBART.

DEMENTED MOTHER’S (’RIME. [press ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. [ Hobart, July 22. A man named Wakefield, residing in the Huon Valley , returning from a shooting expedition, found his wife and three children with their throats cut. No details are to band. The supposition is that the mother killed her children and then herself. MADDENED BY SOLITUDE. A SAD STORY. (Received 23. 1 1.13 a.m.) Hobart. July 23. The following are the details i f the tragedy at Huon Ville (not Valley); “The house was remotely siuated in the bush. The husband was a labourer. He was absent a good deal on shooting expeditions. Mrs Wakefield had been known to complain that death was preferable to her life of solitude. Wakefield left home early on Sunday morning and returned at five o'clock tn the evening to find his two girls, one cl 7 months old and the other four years, and his boy two and a half years old. all murdered. A bloodstained razor lay beside the mother, who was also dead. The latter was 22 years cf age. She has been married five years.