Brutal Murder.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 59, 20 October 1883, Page 3

Brutal Murder.

. « A terrible tragedy took place re eently at Walthamstow. A man named William Gouldatone, 43 years of ape, employed by a firm in Lower Thames street, resided in St. James street, at the former locality Tbe previous week his wife was confined of twins, and bad a woman in the house to nurse her. About (5 o'clock on the evening of the horrible event. Gouldstone returned home. He seemed in a very bad mood, and said to the nurse that he wanted her out of the house while he bad a chat with his wife concerning the medical t-x---penses of the confinement. She went out accordingly. Tbe woman waß surprised a short time afterwards a; j seeing the cistern runni g over, and I on going to it sdie was horrified to ; discover the dead bodies of thre ' children in it. At tho same moment she heard screaming in the room where Jdrs Gouldstone was in bed. She called for assistance, and the door was burst open. Then it was found that the enraged father, after drowning his three eldest children, bad struck tbe twin babes at their mother's breast with a hammer, from the effects of ■which both died the same day. The police were at once sent for. aad the man was taken into custody- The only motive appears to have been that he was annoyed at having five children in three-and-a-half years. ■D-__KK-----B__E_-Bn_---Ba_-----E---B