A DEMENTED WOMAN.
SAD TRAGEDY IN NEW SOUTS WALES. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright Received Dec. 23, 12.15 a.m. Sydney, Dec. 22. An extraordinary story was told at the inquest over the Kurringai tragedy, when a girl of seven years related that her mother told the children that they were going to drink poison and die together, or otherwise they would be shot. Her mother put a pea-rifle in a hamper, bought a rope, and took the children to Sydney, where she bought another gun and some bottles of stuff and proceeded to Kurringai. The boy refused to take the poison and attempted to escape, but the mother tied him to a tree and shot him at point blank range. The mother then drank poison, and made the girl drink, and then laid down, but the girl escaped. A verdict was returned of. murder and gnfcidt> ' ' '
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 6
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144A DEMENTED WOMAN. Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1915, Page 6
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