SHOCKING MURDER AT WAIKIVI.
A MOTHER DROWNS HER THREE CHILDREN.
A fearful occurrence i 3 reported from Waikivi. A woman, the wife of a German settler named Carl Vitting, who has been long resident here, had been subjected to cruel treatment by her husband, who repeatedly deserted her ; and it is thought that his conduct preyed upon her mind. On the afternoon of Saturday she took her four youngest children— her family consisting of eight — saying that she was go : ng to look after cows, and went about a mile into the bush, where she deliberately attempted to drovrn the children in the Waikavi creek. The eldest, a girl aged nine years, struggled out of the water, and saw her mother holding the baby under the water. She gave the' alarm to two men who were wood-splitting, and they recovered the bodies of the three children, who were severally aged eight years, five years, and eleven m oaths. The woman having hidden in the bush, the police searched all night for her, and succeeded in apprehending her yesterday forenoon. An inquest is to be held to-morrow. — Star, 21st October.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 248, 31 October 1872, Page 5
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189SHOCKING MURDER AT WAIKIVI. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 248, 31 October 1872, Page 5
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