MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN In Grahamstown BY THEIR MOTHER.
At twenty minutes past four this evening intelligence of a fearful tragedy having been committed in Grahamsfown was conveyed to the Police. Unfortunately the news on enquiry was was found to be too true.
It appears that a woman named Wall, jiving with her husband at the, rear of Burkes Waiotaln Hotel, has been indulging in liquor, and, as far as we could learn in the hurry of gathering particulars in a fit of madness brought on-by indulgence, she murdered her two children, a boy and a girl, aged respectively nine and seven years. -
The fearful deed appears to have been done with an axe, the heads of the children having been beaten in, evidently with some blunt instrument.
Dr Fox was called in promptly, but th« victims were beyond human aid.
The demented woman -waa conveyed along the street in charge of the Police officers a few minutes ago, and the fearful nature of- her crime appears to have brought her back to a more rational state of mind.
The affair has created a most painful sensation in the immediate neighborhood of the scene of the crime.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2117, 16 October 1875, Page 2
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197MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN In Grahamstown BY THEIR MOTHER. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2117, 16 October 1875, Page 2
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