COWARDLY TRAGEDY.
FATHER DROWNS CHILDREN. JUST AVOIDS SUICIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 31, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Jan. 30. A farmer near Dinan drowned his four children, aged from eight years to twenty months, one by one in a pond near the farmhouse, and then jumped in himself, but when he realised he was nearly drowning he clutched, an overhanging branch.
When rescued, four hours later, he declared he had murdered the children in order to teach his wife a lesson. The family owned a prosperous farm. When the farmer took to drinking excessively his wife, fearing injury, took refuge in her parents’ home and. refused to return. The day after the crime the wife gave birth to a fifth child. She is not expected to live. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1922, Page 5
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130COWARDLY TRAGEDY. Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1922, Page 5
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