BABY’S TERRIBLE FATE
THROWN AMONG ALLEGATORS.
QUEENSLAND FARM TRAGEDY.
(United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.)
Brisbane, May 19.
A terrible tragedy is reported from Conway, where the wife of a farmer threw her. baby girl, six months old, into a river infested with alligators. No hope is held out for the recovery of the child’s body.
The husband of the woman missed the child on his return from work and the wife told him of her awful act. The husband rushed to the spot, but there was no trace of the infant and tiie alligators were basking on the bank. The woman- had been in indifferent health since the birth of the child.
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Southland Times, Issue 21087, 20 May 1930, Page 7
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