TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) BRISBANE, May 19
A terrible tragedy is reported from Conway, where the wife of a farmer throw her baby girl, six months old, into a river infested with alligators. No hope is held out for the recovery of the child’s body. The husband of the woman missed the cluTd on his return from work, and the wife told him of her awful act.
The husband rushed to the spot hut there was no trace of the infant, Alligators were basking on the bAiik. The woman had been in indifferent health since the 'birth of the- child.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 5
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107TERRIBLE TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 5
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