A FATHER'S DREADFUL ACT.
THE HACKNEY' MURDER CASE,
(Sydney "Sun" Special—July 29, G. 25 p.m.)
..." London, July 29. Frederick Robertson, charged with the murder of his threa cliildren at Hackney, is aged 26, and a Telief-stamper by occupation. According to the police evidence, the accused went 1 when arrested', and asserted that he had abandoned his children in tho strnet near Homerton Workhouse, The prisoner has been remanded for medical observation. .The arrost of Robertson followed upon an extraordinary discovery which was made in a house in Hackney. A tenant on the ton floor complained of an offensive sinelll and an inspection the body of a nine-months-old child under a loose board. In one of tho 'lower Tooms tho bodies of two children, twins, aged 2} years, were found behind a eel la;: wall. A young wooden-legged man, named Frederick Robertson, had occupied the rooms with, his wife and children six weeks previously. The wifo was removed to, an infirmary owing to a breakdown, and Robertson departed, telling a neighbour that tho children had been placed under the :are of friends.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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181A FATHER'S DREADFUL ACT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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