TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
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Melbourne, May 25. A domestic tragedy occurred at Coler rainc.
Mrs Day, wife of the manager of the butter factory, sent the servant out and induced five children, their ranging from 11 to 2-J-, to take supposed medicine, giving them lollies.
When the servant returned Mrs Daj tried to prevent her entering and then dis appeared.
Four of the children are dead. The eldest is still alive but in a critical s ate.
The mother’s dead body was subsequently found in a tank in the yard. It is supposed that the woman was dermentend, as she had been ill since the Hast child was born. «
Melbourne, May 27,
Mrs Day also gave her children poison the night previous to the tragedy. They were very ill but recovered. When the servant returned after the children were dead she said she was out of her mind and added she had done the children good and not any harm.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 May 1901, Page 4
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162TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 May 1901, Page 4
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