TASMANIAN TRAGEDY
WOMAN DRIVEN TO DESPERATION.
(Received July 23, 10.55 a.m.)
HOBART, July 23. Detail of the tragedy at Grabtree dhow tiiat the house whs remotely situated in the hush. The husband is a labourer, and is absent a good deal on cSiocifiing expedition'^. Mrs. \Wakefield ih'as' been knlown to complain" that' deatlf vrfie prefe-rable to a life of solitude. Wakefield left home early on Sunday morning, and returned at five o'clock in the eveni'ng. The girls were aged 1 seven months and four years, anid the (boy two and a half yearns. A Mood stained razor was found beside the mother, >wino was only twenty-two years of age, a-nd had been married five years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 5
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115TASMANIAN TRAGEDY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 5
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