CHILDREN MURDERED.
FATHER'S HORRIBLE CRIME. A THREAT CARRIED OUT. By Cable.- —Press Association.—Oopyright. • i SYDNEY, May 13. After visiting friends with his wife and children, George Cottte, aged 29, took his |two sons, five av.l three years of age respectively, for a walk. A few 'minutes later he w'as'found in a back laiie ''wi.th 'his ;t;hr,c* t cut, with the two children lying dead beside, him. Their heads were almost severed; Cottle is-nbt expected to live.
Mrs Cottle is unable. ,to ..give any cause for ijhe.. tragpdy, although :fche says her husbapdihad threatened-to cut her and the Children's throats.
JEALOUS AND DEPRESSED.
AN- UPBRAIDING LETTER
(Received May 14, 8.35 a.m.), SYDNEY, May 14
On the whole Cottles lived fairly lappily, though he was of a jealous disposition. Lately he had suffered from depression.
A letter from a relative was found in his upbraiding him for his treatment" of his wife.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 83, 14 May 1914, Page 7
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