A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN
FOUND DEAD.
United Frees Association— By B.veaf,rio Telegraph,—Copyright. Received July ’23, 11 a.m.
Hobart, Jniy 33,
Hobart reports that b rasa earned Wabsfieid, Isa the Hugh Valley, returning from s. shooting expedition found his wife and two children with tbeiv throats ent, There are no details. The supposition Is that the mother billed the children and herself. _ .Details of the tragedy at Crabtree near Hnonviilo, net Hnon Valley, state that the House is remotely situated in the bush. The husband is a labourer and web absent a good deal on shooting , expeditions. Mrs Wakefield had been known to cam* plain of death being preferable to a life of solitude. Wakefield left early on -Snari’ay sacra log and returned at five in the evening- The girls were ago'd seven months sod fens years respectively sad the boy two and a half years. A bloodstained razor was beside the mother. Tho latter was 23 years of age, and was married five years ago.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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167A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10408, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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