FAMILY TRAGEDY.
SHOCKING TURKISH CASE, . SAD FATE OF CHILDREN. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 20. ' Tragedy overwhelmed a labourer's home in the Karagumruk district. The man's two sons, aged five and seven, were playing with a razor when the younger one was slashed and bled to death. The elder boy was so terrified that he jumped out of a window and died from fracture of the skull. The mother, hearing screams, rushed npstairs. Then she heard screams in the kitchen, where she found her two-year-old baby in flames in the fireplace. The child died from burns.
The shocks demented the mother and father, who were removed 'to a "mental hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20597, 23 June 1930, Page 10
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