TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
CHILDREN SUFFOCATED
FAMILY OF FIVE
BETJSSELS, 6th December. On the eve of St. Nicholas Day, -which! is celebrated like Christmas in parts of Belgium, Madame Thery, living with, her uncle, put to bed five children, whose ages ranged from seven months to six years.
She lit a gas heater in order to warm the room, and returned later to fill their Christmas stockings. She found tho heater extinguished aad the room filled with gas. All the children. were suffocated. She was admitted to a hospital in % distraught condition after vain efforts to revive them.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 11
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96TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 11
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