MOTHER’S TERRIBLE DEED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 703, 1 July 1929, Page 9

MOTHER’S TERRIBLE DEED

DROWNED CHILDREN IN RIVER FLUNG FROM HIGH BANK (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. A terrible tragedy is reported from Banffshire. Mrs. Macdonald, the wife of a farm servant, went out. walking with her three children, aged four years, three years, and ten months, tespectively, the youngest being in a perambulator. When they reached a high bank overlooking a deep pool, the mother threw the children one by one into the river below, despite their screams, and then jumped in herself. A farmer on the opposite side of the river saw the tragedy, but was unable to intervene. Neighbours state that, before starting on her two and a-half miles’ walk, the mother told them her grim intention, but she was not believed.

MELBOURNE TRAGEDY

MAN, WIFE AND CHILD DEAD IN HOUSE DOUBLE MURDER, SUICIDE Reed. 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, Today. An alleged double murder and suicide was discovered when the police forced their way into a house at Morwell, and found the bodies of Mrs. Morris, aged 30, Thelma Morris, aged 2, and Alexander Morris, aged 40. They were discovered in a bedroom with gunshot wounds in their heads. The mother and daughter were in bed. Morris was found on the floor with a shotgun across his chest.