THE TRAGEDY AT WOODLANDS.
Dunedin, August 8. Further intelligence which has reached here, regarding the finding of a woman and two children in a well at Woodlands, goes to show that Mrs Milne in a woat moment committed suicide and threw her two children into the 1 well to drown with her. Of late site had been heard to say she expected soon to die, and gave evidence of a w-ean atate of mind in various ways. The well was usually kept covered with a lid, which it is almost impossible could have been lifted by the children. There .were twenty feet of water in the well, which was thirty feet deep.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2924, 9 August 1882, Page 3
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112THE TRAGEDY AT WOODLANDS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2924, 9 August 1882, Page 3
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