A TENEMENT TRAGEDY.
BODIES OF BABIES FOUND,
LONDON, Sept. 3,
In consequence of the verdict given by a jury at the inquest on the bodies of the children recently discovered in a Hackney tenement Fredrick Robertson has been committed for trial.
Last month the tenant on the top floor of a house in Hackney complained of an offensive smell. An inspection disclosed the body of a nine months' old child under a loose board, and in one of the lower rooms the bodies of two children, twins years old, behind the wall. The bodies showed signs that the children had ■met with violent dieaths. A young wooden-legged man, named Fredrick Robertson, occupied these rooms with his_ wife and his children up till six weeks before His wife had to be removed to the infirmary owing to a breakdown in her health, and Robertson departed, telling the neighbours that his children had been placed in the care of friends. It was stated that he had been worried by his wife's illness.
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Northern Advocate, 4 September 1913, Page 5
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170A TENEMENT TRAGEDY. Northern Advocate, 4 September 1913, Page 5
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