OPUNAKE.
«. A WOMAN POISONS HERSELF AND TWO CHILDREN. ALL THREE DEAD. . IBY TELEGRAPH. I (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) OPUNAKE, April 7. Mrs. Plumridsje, a half-caste, residing here, (late of Wellington) poisoned herself and two children yesterday evening. The poison was put into tea, and was very effective, the mother and the eldest boy died almost immediately, the younger boy lived more than an hour afterwards. All efforts to relieve him being unavailing. The act seems to have been premeditated, she having threatened to do it for some weeks. A telegram from another source relates : — News has just reached here that Mrs. Plumridge (better known as Mrs. Higgins), an half-caste, well known in Wellington and Auckland, poisoned herself and her two children with strychnine at about half-past eight. It appears she went into New Plymouth and purchased five drachms of strychnine on Friday, to poison rats, as she said. An inquest will be held to-morrow.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 767, 7 April 1884, Page 2
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154OPUNAKE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume V, Issue 767, 7 April 1884, Page 2
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