Widow and Four Children Drowned
Mother’s Dreadful Deed
Per Press Association.
INVERCARGILL, June 27.
A drowning tragedy In which a widow and four of six young children are believed to bave lost tbelr lives occurred In the Walbopal Elver on the outskirts of Invercargill on Saturday night.
The victims were Emma McEae Atkinson Robertson, aged 37, the mother; Struaa Robertson, aged 4; James Robertson, aged 5; Nan Robertson, aged 3; and Graham Robertson, aged 2. Mrs. Robertson’s husband, James, died ten months ago. Early on Saturday evening, according to the police, Mrs. Robertson took the children for a walk to a nearby bridge and dropped each child into the river, following herself. The eldest child, Joan Robertson, aged 7, and one of the twin boys, Alister Robertson, aged 4, were able to scramble ashore, but the others sank immediately or were carried downstream by the fast-running cur Tent of the flooded river. The police recovered the bodies of mother and Struan hy dragging to-day.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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