Further Particulars.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 115, 10 April 1884, Page 2

Further Particulars.

'•■ • ] [Herald Correspondent.?] '\iZIC j Opunake, April 7. •Considerable seusafeien prevails throughout the district m consequence ofl a shocking-tragedy ' eriacted , last evening, m whicfi a half-caste named" Lbuisa Plumbridge murdered her two eons, aged seven arid nine respectively, by adnrinistiing poison, and committed suicide by the same- -means. The circumstances of this sad affair are as follows;:^-. On eveuipg the family, consisting- of Mrs Pliimbrictge, " /her two children and brother", werejßitr. , ting 1 at tea, when the latter observed something 'ataiiss with' the younger- boy, /and suggested that medical aid should be obtained, sA the child -appeared urrwell. Accordingly he left the house, but returned m about-half an hour, accompanied by Mr Layard, dispenser of the A.C. Force, 'when .'tp'their terror they discovered the body of Mrs Plumbridge, lying acrosg one* of the,-, children,, on the floor of the bedroom, Che* *' other on the bed. Lite became extinfct m the mother ancTelcler boy a few minutes after Jh^rrival of Mr Layard, but by -Che-aid M)t emetics: andTc^her restoratives vigorously applied, the younger ,cbijd!s 'U£e „was; prplpngeHifpi' T about two hours and a half, during' ' v which he was at times perfectly .conscious, and stated on being questioned that ./'Mamma had made .them take. v 'some powders." ' Two or tbreekinds" bf • A : poison have been found m the house, and on M A M< jaj.ceaJL c y|sit__to New Plymouth Migi Prumbria^e^pu'rchased-S ' "*- --drams odMfcrychnine. SJje had beejf living aparj from her f |iiu?b|ivi for manf years, but was m comlortaßle circumi stances. : No* nioftve is ak'preMtftiNiidj^ duced for the commisiou of the deed.