A Mother Chops Her Infant's Head Off.
Melbourne, February 4, Harriet Tyrypet has been arrested at Lauriston, where she ivas living with a Chinaman. She laid the child's head on a block and deliberately chopped it off with an axe. She confessed the crime, staling that a resistless impulse moved her to commit tho murder. She is believed to be insiiue, The woman is well connected in England, and was in receipt of considerable sums of money from time to time, but perBisteutly led a vagrant life.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4942, 4 February 1895, Page 3
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87A Mother Chops Her Infant's Head Off. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4942, 4 February 1895, Page 3
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