TWO BABIES KILLED

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1929, Page 5

TWO BABIES KILLED

NEIGHBOUR’S STORY. (By Telegraph—Press Association). " . ' AUCKLAND, Aug. 6. It is understood that Mrs Cubis had returned only in the last couple of months from a nursing home, where she was treated for neurasthenia. For a long time she was away for the good of her health, on her people’s farm at Albany. ''■ •There were three boys, one aged 8, ivho is now at Albany and the twins. A neighbour said the twins were fine healthy little boys. They were seen playing on a sand heap in the street after breakfast, and seemed as happy as ever. It was about eleven o’clock when Mrs Ball, living nearby, was alarmed by a visit from Mrs Oubis, whi was on the verge of collapse, and moaning repeatedly: “My babies—my beautiful babies—liiave lost them.” Mrs Ball sent her daughter over to another neighbour, Mrs Pa ice, who ran across to Mrs Cubis’s house, and then made the shocking discovery of the twins lying in bed with silk stockings twisted tightly round their necks. Their father, Mr Cubis, a railway employee, was summoned by., a telephone message to come home at once and to be prepared for the worst. He said everything appeared all right when he left home. He got up early in the morning and gave his wife a cup of tea in bed.

His wife is aged thirty-eight. She has been taken to a mental hospital.