WOMAN’S TERRIBLE ACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S TERRIBLE ACT

“I Have Killed My Children” KINGSLAND TRAGEDY I HAVE killed my children! I have killed my children'” 1 With these words Mrs. W Cubis, of 25 King Edward Street, Kingsland, rushed from her house this moraine: about 10 o clock. & A neighbour who investigated found the two four-year-old twin boys of Mrs. Cubis dead in bed with silk stockings twisted tightly about their necks. The body of one child was still warm. The other child had been dead for some time.

The horrified neighbour advised the police and Detective-Sergeant. Kelly errired on the scene almost at once, The unfortunate mother was still in g demented state. William Cubis, husband of the woman, is a railway employee. At 7 (•clock this morning he went to work, leaving his wife in bed, and apparently in the best of health. Before he left, he made her a cup Of tea. One of the twin boys was in bed with her. The other slept in a cot alongside the bed. About 10 o'clock Mrs. Cubis rushed across to the house of a neighbour, Mrs. Paice, 13 King Edward Street,

crying, “I have killed my children; I have killed my children!” Mrs. Paice rushed into the Cubis home and found that both children were covered up in bed. Pulling back the clothes, she discovered that each child had a woman’s silk stocking pulled tightly around its neck, and had evidently been choked to death. Mrs. Paice untied the stockings and flung the window open in an endeavour to resuscitate the children. They were both dead, however. A doctor was summoned and he pronounced life extinct. An older boy, eight years of age, the only other child of the family, was not at home, but was away with a relative at school. According to Mrs. Paice, who ran into the house to investigate, the children were not in the bedroom usually occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Cubis. She came out of the house again and called out to Mrs. Cubis, “Where are the children?” The distracted woman said they were in the other spare room. Mrs. Vincent found them there as stated, beneath the bed-clothes. One of the little boys was dressed and the other was in his night-clothes. Detective-Sergeant Kelly, Detective O’Sullivan and Detective-Sergeant Doyle were summoned and arrived shortly afterward with the police matron. Mrs. Cubis was taken to the police station under arrest about midday. She is about 39 years of age, and it is stated she has never shown signs of mental stress, being perfectly normal until after the tragedy this morning. The names of the dead children are William Arran Cubis and Timothy Brian Cubis. The bodies were removed to the morgue about 1.30 p.m. After the bodies were examined bv Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., and Dr. Gllmour, police surgeon. An inquest will bo held immediately.