COUPLE FOUND DEAD.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 21, 4 November 1944, Page 5

COUPLE FOUND DEAD.

BULLET WOUNDS IN HEADS. (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 3. An airman and his wife were found dead in a bedroom of their home at Ardmore Road, Herne Bay, this morning. They * both had bullet wounds in the head and a .22 sporting rifle was lying beside the airman. The discovery was made by the father of the airman when he called at the house about 10 o’clock and it is believed that the tragedy occurred several hours before. The dead persons are: — Flight Sergeant Irving Fairfax Carlsen, R.N.Z.A.F., aged 32. Mary Emma Carlsen, aged 26. When he arrived at the house to see his son and daughter-in-law, Mr J. R. Carlsen noticed that the milk bottles and the morning paper had not been taken in. Two of Flight Sergeant and Mrs Carlsen’s three young children were standing at the window of thenbedroom ill front of the house and one of them told Mr Carlsen that his parents were not awake yet. Mr Carlsen opened the front door and went into the parents’ bedroom, opposite the children’s room. 4 Carlsen had served in the Air Force for about four years. He was in Canada for two years after which he returned to- New Zealand for a month. He then went to the Pacific where he served as a wireless operatoi and air gunner and returned home only about two weeks ago. •