TRIPLE TRAGEDY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 288, 9 November 1925, Page 7

TRIPLE TRAGEDY

THREE CHILDREN KILLED

FOUND AVBTH THEIR THROATS CUT.

THE AIOTHER DETAINED

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Nov. 9,

A tragedy involving tho lives of three young children occurred at 8.30 this morning at 28 Brighton street Ivaikorni, when Ulure Lindsay Hart, aged five, Andrew Hart, aged three, and Nola Hart, aged 14 months, were found with their throats cut.

The first intimation was when the mother, Ellen Hart, threw a stone on the roof of Mr Upton’s house adjoining, and then telling Mrs Upton to come in with her. They went into Hart’s house and Mrs Hart said: “I have killed my kids; I loved those kids.”

Mrs Upton called her husband, who found tho children to bo all dead. The two boys were lying on a mat in the kitchen, while the baby was found in a perambulator with the head almost severed.

The tragedy must have occurred just after Mr 3 Hart’s husband, a carpenter, left for work. Tho bodies were removed to the morgue* and Mrs Hart was taken to the police station. Later.

From certain superficial gashes in Airs 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 tho police have not secured his statement. The Hart’s came to Kaikorai about a year ago from Mosgiel. Airs Hart is said to have been a resident of the North Island at one time.