"GOD FORGIVE ME."
MOTHER'S AWFUL DEED. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright. SYDNEY, February 25. At the inquest on the Osbornes, evidence was given that the mother, using a pea rifle, fatally shot the boy aged five years and a-half, and wounded another child aged four, and then herself. She then took poison." She left a pathetic letter, saying:— "Do not blame my dear husband. We have been the beat of friends. I only ask him to forgive me. I cannot leave my babies behind. lam perfectly sane, and may Go* forgive me." [A previous message stated that Mrs Osborne shot two sons (one fatally) and 0 daughter, and then poisoned herself.]
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 18, 26 February 1914, Page 8
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