TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
MOTHER’S MAD ACT. CHILD THROWN TO ALLIGATORS* HUSBAND’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY^ United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright* (Received May 19, 9.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, May 19. A terrible tragedy is reported from Conway, where the wife of a farmer threw her baby glr-l, aged six months, Into a river Infested with alligators. No hope is held out for the recovery of the child’s body. The husband of the woman missed the child on his return from work, and his wife told him of her awful act. The husband rushed to the spot, but there was no trace of the Infant. The alligators were basking on the bank. The woman had been In indifferent health since the birth of the child.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18023, 19 May 1930, Page 7
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