THE BENDIGO TRAGEDY.
MRS McCLUSKY COMMITTED FOR
TRIAL
(United P*-<?cs Association—Copyright.) 'MELBOURNE, August 15. Camelia McClusky has been commit--ted for trial on a charge of murdering her three children in Bendigo.
(Camelia McClusky is a middle-aged troman, who was generally known as Mrs Mclntosh. She killed her three children—a girl aged 12 and a boy and a girl (twins) aged 10—in a villa at Ironbark. Bendigo, on the 6th inst. The ■children wero found in different parts of the houfaa all tejmibly mutilated with a hatchet. The.'woman confessed to the police, who found the house alight, but the flames were easily overcome. The furniture in the front room including a piano, were smashed and piled in a heap. Two letters by McClusky vrere found, one accusing McIntosh of infidelity, and the other to a friend saying she was lonely and miserable. She "was not mad, but only desperate.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12585, 16 August 1910, Page 5
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