SUPPOSED DROWNING OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CiiRISTCHCRCir, Thursday. A woman named Royal, the wife of a carpenter living at Sydenham, is supposed to have drowned two of her children in the Heathcote river this evening. It is believed that her mind has been slightly affected since her confinement nine months ago. This afternoon she went out for a walk, taking her three children, two boys, 34 and 2A years old respectively, and a baby, a girl. Two men subsequently saw the oldest boy holding on to willows iu the river, and rescued him. The mother was seen with her clothes wet. She and the rescued child were taken to the hospital. The bodies of the other children have been recovered. In auawer to Inspector Pender, the woman said at one time that the children had fallen in, at another that she did not know how they got into the river.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6965, 14 March 1884, Page 5
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