A FARMER'S VENGEANCE
DROWNS HIS - : CHILDREN, ■! ;' “ TEACHING HIS WIFE A EESSOJT.*^ Press Association—By Telegraph—Oopyri^t. PARIS, January 30. j. (Received Jan. 31, at 5.5 p.m.) ; ■ A farmer near Dinant drowned" his-four children, aged from years,, to, 20 months, one by one in a pond near hi» farmhouse, .Ho then jumped in himself,'but when ho realised that he was nearly drowning he clutched an overhanging branch. When rescued four hours later he declared that he had murdered hia children in order to teach his wife lesson. The family owned a prpsperotia , farm. The farmer took to drinking excessively, and his wife, fearing, injury, took refuge in her parents’ home i and refused toretSfu. The day after the crime the wife gave birth to a fifth child. She is not expected to live.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18468, 1 February 1922, Page 5
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