THE WOODLANDS TRAGEDY.
SUICIDB AND MUBDIB.
DUNEDItf, August 8. Further intelligence which has reached here regarding the finding of a woman and two children in a well at Woodlands, goes to «how that LI'S Milne in a weak moment committed suicide, throwing her two children into tho well with her. Of late she had been he*rd to ear she expected soon to die, «nd gave evidence of a weak state of mind in various ways. The well was usually kept covered with a lid, which it was almost; impossible for children to lift. There were 20ft of water in the well, which was 30ft deep.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 6692, 9 August 1882, Page 5
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105THE WOODLANDS TRAGEDY. Lyttelton Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 6692, 9 August 1882, Page 5
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