THE OTAKI TRAGEDY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 124, 25 May 1920, Page 9

THE OTAKI TRAGEDY.

COBONEB'S INQUEST,

A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

At the inquest concerning the Otaki tragedy, Mrs. Wylic, daughter of Thomas McFail, said he did not know of anything t 0 account for her father attacking her sister Olive. Up was a temperate man, •nd did not display any ill temper that day- M p was not eoccitable, and was oiiiet in the house. Olive was 17J, a good living g' al,d on o° o< * terms w^l her father." While sitting in the kitchen that evening MoFall had asked Olive what she va g writing about. Olive replied that she had not written anything out of place- Witness did not know what she Jneant. Later on the same witness said she knew of no reasons for the crime. The father had never threatened any of ♦he family- His suicide was a mystery, nor did she know why he should harm Olive. The letter referred to may have irritated him. She did not know its contents. Thoro was no other evidence to. account for McFa-11's action, and in his case a simple verdict of suicide was returned. The coroner found, further, "That Olive JfcFall met her death as the result of Wine etabbed by her father, Thomas JlcFall-"