TWO TRAGEDIES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 485, 5 July 1890, Page 5

TWO TRAGEDIES.

Awful Deed of a Maniac Mother,

She Kills Her Daughter and

H Elis ELF

Last night at about 8 o’clock,say3 a Traver telegram of May 6th, to the New York papers, Mrs F. A. Bresler, who resides five miles southwest from this place, sent her two girls, aged respectively 9 aod 11 years, to bed, and shortly thereafter enteied the room and seized the elder girl by the throat and proceeded deliberately to strangle her to death. The younger child jumped from the bed and ran, pursued by the mother, still clinging to her child. The mother followed some 200 yards and dropped the thon dead child, and after pursuing the of her some distance gave up the chase and returned. The little girl kept running and arrived at Mr Boyd’s, a mile distant, in her night clothes and nearly exhausted. Boin«dazed by fright,she could not tell what had. happened. Meantime the husband, who was working some three miles from home, returned and found the light burning as usual, bub nobody within sight of hearing. After calling several times his wife answered, and going to the back of the house ho found her in a pool of blood. He carried her into the house and discovered that the front part of her head was literally chopped into mincemeat. She was perfectly conscious and said she did ib, but gave no reason for so doing. She told him where to find the dead child, and the neighbours, who had then arrived, took a lantern and soon found the body, which was closely guarded by a faithful dog, a pet of the children. Some mules were trying to get to the child, bub the dog kept them away, and it was some time before the men could approach the child. Physicians were summoned and pronounced the woman’s case as hopeless, the axe with which the deed was done having penetrated the brain in several places. She is still alive. She was evidently insane. The little girls were Mrs Bresler’s children by her first husband, and Bresler is alleged to have failed to treat her well, and domestic trouble is supposed to lmvedriven her wild. She says she is sorry she did not kill both children.