PETONE TRAGEDY.
INQUEST ON VICTIMS. Wellington, Last Night. At the Coroner’s inquest into the deaths of the four little Perrin Children, of Petone, who were drowned in a bath by their mother, while the latter was mentally afflicted, evidence was that after the children were discovered, Mrs Perrin said: “I have sent them to Heaven. They are asleep. Are they not beautiful?”
When Dr. Hutcheson was called in, he asked the woman why she did it. Mrs Perrin replied: “To save them from suffering.” She also said that ifj the eldest boy, who accompanied his father to Upper Hutt, had been home, she would have sent him to Heaven also. Medical evidence was that at the time the woman was in a demented condition, hastened to anxiety during the children’s illness.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3538, 16 September 1926, Page 3
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131PETONE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3538, 16 September 1926, Page 3
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