MOTHER'S TERRIBLE CRIME.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7506, 13 September 1902, Page 4

MOTHER'S TERRIBLE CRIME.

— <& CHILDREN DROWNP IN A TUB. A charge of murdering her son James* aged two and a half years, was preferred a* Enfiold Petty Sessions, England, against Eliza Pollard, aged forty, of Edmonton, the wife of a nibble polisher,, twp of .whose children! -".Vere found lymg dead in bed. . A detectj.ye stated that.the woman, said, when airpsted: " Pppr little dears. It was God's curse. Had He cured them, this would mi have happenbd.^ I have been. , djeaining: about them, and it has worried me Vfery much. The neighbours used to c$U their ohiidren ajway from mine when they wer© playing with them, ?nd it broke my heart. "I have tried to cure them, and taken them to several hospitals, apd spept a lot pf money trying to cure them. It is ,no fault of mine, nor my husband's. He is a good fellpw. "Yesterday the young one was crying all the morning, and it drove me mad.. Sp, in the afbernpop, j put them in a tub of wat«", and- put them pn- the 'bed.- I did not fenow what I was doing. I hope Qod will forgive me. I wye* 4 id -fSF.^ 0 ?? a ?y. feiiPUSteP:? tion^lly. ' . y ■ ibe witness added that the children had suffered from eczema, and that after the «iquest the, .mother' yould, probably be charged with the murder of the younger one. . ■