DOUBLE TRAGEDY
MOTHER AND CHILD DEAD
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HASTINGS, This Day./
A tragedy was discovered last night when Mrs. Hilda Kathleen McLeod, aged 34, the wife of- lan McLeod, was found fatally poisoned, and her 2J-year-old son drowned in a bath. Mrs. McLeod, since the death of her second child'two months ago, had suffered from ill health, arid had been subject to nervous depression. It was arranged yesterday • that Mrs. McLeod should accompany her husband and some friends to the pictures in the evening, but shortly before they were to leave she expressed a desire not to go. After Mr. McLeod had gone to the , pictures, Mrs. McLeod said to a nurse who was in the house caring for the baby that she intended to have a \ vth-and go to bed. The nurse visited the bathroom, and finding the door locked, immediately communicated with the picture theatre where Mr. McLeod had gone. A doctor was also called.
It was found that the chftd * had been drowned in the bath and the mother, who was also in the bath, had taken a fatal close of poison.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 11
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186DOUBLE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 11
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