SHOCKING TRAGEDY
MOTHER’S AIAD ACT. (Australian Press Association). / (Received this day at 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, (Dee. 7. A shocking tragedy occurred at Surat as the result of which Airs Ruby Aliller and two children, Robert, aged twelve, and Joyce, aged one, are dead, and two other girls in a critical condition. A 'bloodstained axe and razor were found in a room. It is believed that the woman murdered two children with the axe and rendered the other two unconscious and then cut her own throat with a razor. Her (husband was absent at the time.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 5
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