A MOTHER’S CRIME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 August 1929, Page 5

A MOTHER’S CRIME.

TWINS STRANGLED. AN AUCKLAND TRAGEDY. (By Telegraph —Press Association,) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. The twin sons, aged four years, of W. Cubis, of 25 King Edward Street, Kingsland, were found dead this morning with stockings twisted round thennecks. Their mother has been arrested. It is understood that Mrs Cubis had' returned only in the last couple of months from a nursing home, . where she was treated for neurasthenia. loi a long time she was away for the good of her health on her people’s farm at Albany. There were three boys, one aged eight-, who is now at Albany, and the twins. They were seen playing on a sand heap in the street after breakfast, and seemed as happy as ever. It was about eleven o’clock when Mrs Ball, living nearby, was alarmed by a visit from Mrs Cubis, who "was on the verge of collapse and moaning repeatedly: “My babies. My beautiful babies. I have lost them. Ball sent her daughtey over to anotner neighbour, Mrs Paise, who ran across to Mrs Cubis’s house and there made the shocking discovery of «the twins lying dead in bed with silk stockings twisted tightly around their necks. Mrs Cubis has been taken to a mental hospital.