MOTHER KILLS HER FOUR CHILDREN.
THEN ATTEMPTS TO TAKE HER OWN LIFE.
FATHER’S TERRIBLE HOMECOMING. Gore, April 11. George Coekburn Rae, a farmer, ut Kaiwera, left home in the usual manner to plough a paddock this morning, his wife and four young children being apparently on good terms with each other. At 12.30 Rae returned to the farmhouse for lunch. On nearing the house he heard a shot ring out. He rushed inside and saw a note on the table. He then dashed for the bedroom, and was confronted by his wife, with a pearifle in her hands and blood streaming from a wound under her left breast, In a room off the kitchen he discovered his four children, three being shot dead and a fourth expiring as the father entered the room. The children were dressed in their night attire. The police were communicated with and the demented mother, still alive, was brought to the Gore Hospital, where she now lies in a very critical condition. Rae is suffering from shock.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3625, 12 April 1927, Page 2
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172MOTHER KILLS HER FOUR CHILDREN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3625, 12 April 1927, Page 2
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