MOTHER SUSPECTED OF AWFUL CRIME.
WOMAN AND HER TWO CHILDREN FOUND DEAD.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 7, 10.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, December 7. A shocking tragedy occurred at Surat as the result of which Mrs Ruby Miller and her two children, Robert, aged twelve, and Joyce, aged one, are dead, and two other girls are in a critical condition. A bloodstained axe and razor were tend in a room. It is believed that murdered two of the childrenwith the axe, rendered the other two unconscious and then cut her own throat with the razor. Her husband was absent at the time.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 1
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