Later
Hopes for Recovery Slight
The tragedy was evidently premeditated, the victims bein gattacked with an axe while asleep.
Basil (aged 9), Roy (4), and Ronald (2) are dead.- Phyllis (11), the baby (six weeks), and the mother (37) are in the hospital, and hopes of their recovery are slight.
A caller, getting no answer, communicated with the police, who found the victims in bed.
Baxter (aged 43) had a shop in town, and carried on a , nursery. There is no apparent motive for the crime.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12436, 8 April 1908, Page 7
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86Later Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXII, Issue 12436, 8 April 1908, Page 7
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