INQUEST OPENED.
BELMONT TRAGEDY.
WIFE FOUND DEAD. HUSBAND IN HOSPITAL Detectives made further investigations to-day concerning the circumstancec* of tho finding of AJr. Fratwiri Leonard ljiiiu ie, and hi/ next-door neig'hlmur, Mrs. Annio .loiepliino Lavcin-k, o.f Belin<int, in a hotel bedroom yesterday with their wrists piisliefl and, later, the discovery of the !x>dy of Mrs. Be<itrico Klorenco Hit a ijuurie at her home. The condition of Mr. was today le.ported to be satisfactory, while that of Mir!. Iwiycock, who is also a patient in t.hu Auckland Ho<s.pital, was ntated by tho hospital authorities to be serious. In a serious condition when admitted yesterday morning, sh<, j m . proved during the afternoon, but the iniprox enient lias not Im'cii continued to-day. Inquest Adjourned. 'I'lie iin | lies t touching the <leath of Mrs. l/aurie opened nt the morgue this morning by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt. I >ete< tix J. WhWi represented the police. Kvidcnce of i<lentiflcntion was given by William }fenry Wlieeler, master plumber, of 77, Ijake Koad. Takaptma. xx ho said the debased xvas his sister and was :i9 years of age. lie last saw her alive at Takapuna about six week* ajro. The coroner adjourned the inquest sine die.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 8
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