FEARFUL DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2548, 28 June 1895, Page 2

FEARFUL DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

A MAN MURDERS HIS THREE CHILDREN. Bu Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. deceived June 27, 10.30 p.m. Stixney, Juno 27. A shocking tragedy occurred at Eodforn ihis morning/ . . A tttitn named Thermae Brown, greengrocer, met tho Bov Mr Dowd, and told him that ho had out the throats of hie three children—Thomas, aged O'; Charlotte, aged 5, and Joseph, aged 3’— early i« tho' day,' and had loft thorn’ in the house ready for burial. .. , . . As BroWtl ifris dWpriv'on'tly 'suffering iroui drink, Mr Dowd dtd iWj> behove him’, but tho man showed a blood-stained with which ho had committed! tho deed, and said ho intended to surrender himself te tbo police after bo had seen his wife. Mr Dowd then informed tho police, who visited tho house, and found tho poor children lying in bed, dead, their hoada bound up in white cloths, and terrible gashes iu their throats. Moanwhilo Brown had gone to the jolico station and asked thorn to go to his house, but ho was supposed to bo drunk, and no attention was paid to him. When ho was eventually arrested, ho produced tho razor and said he had murdered his children to savo them suflor*n|lra Brown left her husband a few weeks a~o owing to bis ill-treatment and neglect, and wont to live with another man. Brown discovered boro whereabouts, haunted tho house and threatened vonS °Ho Ce went there this morning and domanded to see his wife, and hinted that ho had committed tho deed to make her regret tho abandonment of tho children. It is believed bo also intended to murder Since his wife left huu Bvowu lifts been drinking heavily.