A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
The Jerriderie correspondent of the Argus.telegraphs: A terrible affair occurred near Yanko station oh the:: evening of November 23.. The wife of a man who was employed .in olearing scrub land got a pair of shears, cut her child's.throat, and then got a small axo and chopped, its. head .completely Off. She,threatened to kill her othei children, but-afterwards ran awaj. Her husband returned from work in the evening; saw the ghastly sight, and rah to the homestead with' the.: tidings. ■ On his way home he met' Some ■ of •testation hands coming hometown to inquire into the truth of, (he affair, a boundary rider having already;c.onveyed the news. This u.an saw tba woman after the deed had been committeed some considerable distance away; from the hut where aha resided. He, noticed that she Ma blood'upoh her 'clothes, andl asked the cause of it.-' She'told; him that she had killed her ohild. He atonce galloped, to the homestead, and? ihforititttion.was given to .the' police, w.ho started the same night- in search of tlje miaabg woman, After j
ihg for several found her hanging behind a bush fence. For weeks:!past the woman has been peculiar, and it is supposed that in a sudden fit of intoniWfihifdid the deed,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1869, 19 December 1884, Page 2
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208A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1869, 19 December 1884, Page 2
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