TRAGEDY OF THE BUSH
SOLITUDE PREYS ON A MOTHER'S MIND.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Hobart, July 23. Further details are to ■ hand of the tragedy at Crabtree, in the Huon Volley, where a man named "Wakefield returned homo to find his wife and three children with their throats cut. Wakefield's house is remotely situated in tho bush. Tho husband is a labourer, and is absent a good deal on shooting expeditions. Mrs. Wakefield lwd been known to complain that death was preferable to a life of solitude. Wakefield left home early on Sunday morning, and returned at 5 o'clock in the evening. The girls were aged seven months and four years, and the boy two and a half years. A blood-stained razor was found beside the mother, who was only twenty-two years of age, and had been married five years.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 5
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139TRAGEDY OF THE BUSH Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1500, 24 July 1912, Page 5
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