Shocking Tragedy.
ANOTHER RESULT OF DRINK. MAN MURDERS THREE CHILDREN. Sydney, June 27. A shocking tragedy occurred at Redfern this morning. A man named Thomas Brown, greengrocer, met the Rev. Mr Dowd, and told him he had cut the throats of his three children—Thomas, aged 6; Charlotte, aged 5 ; Joseph,' aged B—early in the day, and had left them in the house ready for burial. Brown was apparently suffering from drink. The police, who visited the house, found the poor children lying in bed, dead, their heads bound up in white cloths, and terrible gashes in their throats. When he was eventually arrest ‘d, he produced the razor, aud said he had murdered his children to save them suffering, Mrs Brown left her husband a few weeks ago owing to his ill-treat-ment and neglect, and went to live with another man.
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Woodville Examiner, Volume XIII, Issue 2386, 1 July 1895, Page 2
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