MOTHER MURDERS CHILD
GASHED WHILE ASLEEP TRAGEDY AT MELBOURNE (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. Noon. MELBOURNE, To-day. John McNeill, aged nine, wn frightfully gashed about the throat with a razor by his mother, while he lay asleep this morning at his home in Rozelle. The boy rushed screaming to the street, where he collapsed and died before medical aid could reach him. The woman was recently an inmate of a mental hospital. She left her husband in bed and went for a drink. Presently he heard screams. He rushed out and caught his wife and took the razor away after a struggle. The woman was later charged with murder and remanded for a week.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 9
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115MOTHER MURDERS CHILD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 466, 22 September 1928, Page 9
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