SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT FOOTSCRAY,
Melbourne, October 14. A snocKiNa tragedy took place at Footscray thia morning. A young married woman, named Mary , Eliza George, drowned her infant in the ■ underground tank, and then' drowned herself. Her husband, Frederick George, who is engaged in a tannery, missed his wife and child, and subsequently discovered both dead in the tank. , On searching tho room, part of an illustrated paper was found with a few lines of a story describing an old tragedy in Ireland, and referring to a murder and to the acts of a madman. On the other side on the margin, 'in a woman's writing, were the words, *• Fred, mad, mad." Tho deceased woman had shown no sign of madness, and was always a careful' mother, and bad been on the best of terras with everybody. Two | children are left, the eldest of whom is 1 four years eld.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 175, 23 October 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)
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149SHOCKING TRAGEDY AT FOOTSCRAY, Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 175, 23 October 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)
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