SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT TIMARU.
A woman named Drake, one of tho inimierants per Meroye. had been committed to a lunatic asylum by the Resident Magistrate, and was left in change of her husband in the barracks awaiting removal. At eight o'clock on i uesday night Dvake went out for a moment, when his wife locked him out. On the door being broken open, she was found to have killed her Bon, two years old, almost severing ihe head from the body with a razor, and 1 o have cut her own t roat seve ely. She is in a <lying state. This is the second case of lunacy from the Merope.
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Evening Star, Issue 3973, 18 November 1875, Page 3
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111SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT TIMARU. Evening Star, Issue 3973, 18 November 1875, Page 3
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