SUMNER TRAGEDY.
MAN'S BODY POUND
DISCOVERY ON ROCKS.
(By Telegraph.—.Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, this day.
In connection with the Sumner tragedy, the body of Claude Hargood Boundy, aged 23, has been found on the rocks at the end of the beach.
On Friday the body of Muriel McDonald, aged 10, was found at the foot of the cliffs at Scarborough. The body was terribly mutilated as a result of being dashed against the rocks.
Searchers who approached the foot of the cliffs from the seaward side also saw another object which was later identified as the body of Boundy. Muriel McDonald .and Boundy, who lives at Woolston, 'were missed from their homes on Thursday. The circumstances of the tragedy point to a double suicide.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 57, 9 March 1931, Page 5
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