WOUNDED MY SUCCUMBS

Chronicle (Levin), 22 December 1949, Page 5

WOUNDED MY SUCCUMBS

Press AssodationJ

Second Victim Of Auckland Stabbifig Tragedy

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AUCKLAND , Dec. 22. Suffering from, knife wounds received; in a stabbing atv 57.Cook Street, Ereemari's Ba-y, shprtly before noon yesterday, Peter Wmgrove, aged- 2, died- , soon after admission to Kospital. His brother, Stephen - Wingrove, aged 5i, was dead in the house when ia the dis-; covery was made, while _ ftis mother, Mrs.' Barbara, Wingrove,' aged 24, ahd sister,- Ste-phanie' Wingrove, aged 2, were rushed to? hospital with knife wounds, Mrs. Wingrove, a danghter of Mrs: Minnie Matthews, of Eook Street ^ had befcn in ill-health" for some time, and she and her children Wettt to stay With Mrs. Matthews last Monday. Mrs. Matthews we'ht to' w'ofk this morning at a de'licatfesse'h shop' itt Hobson Street; and at 11.33 a.m. a taxidfiver, Mr. David Arnold Heinsley, who was driving past the house in Cooli Stfeet, was asked by a person running trom the direction of the hotise to call ^he police because the children were . apparently being assaulted. Soon afterwards two eOnstableS found Mrs. Wingfove ahd her children lying covered in blood in different . rooms in the house. : Mrs. Wingrove was lyihg ih the pas?age with a knife wound in the grOin. 'The dead boy, Stephen, was in the back room. His bedy Wms covered in blood and tliere were injuries about his neck about which something was.tied. Peter and Stephanie were in another part of the house. The pofice found Stephanie under the ,bed. - Mrs. Matthews, mother of Mrs. Wingrove said: "I was at work when my i daughter, Gail,- aged e'ight, came running to me and saidvslie had been locked out. She had Climbe'd thrdugh the window and had seen what had happened and ran to tell me. " Slim, pretty Mrs.- Wingrove had been ; le'ft to bring up her family after her husband was liilled in an accident.