TWO PERSONS FOUND DEAD
TRAGEDY IN ROOMIN fi HOUSE (New Zealand Press AUCKLAND, August J A man and a woman, ores. g night attire, were found deao small room in a Grafton roao ment house on Saturday mornmnrobm smelt slightly of gas nan jel The two persons were Alister . j Smith, agea 21. a grocer’s aSSI ®7 d 28. 8 Mrs Mary Ethel Danvers, agea ** factory hand. nartme® 1 The proprietress of the house, Mrs Ethel May in the bodies at 9.35 a.m. front a small room at the end of J®. 5 veranda which the couple naa pied for about four months. Mrs Lomas said to-day that, she entered the unlocked ro®"*. vas only a very slight smell 0 The man was lying face doW ”_ floor beside the bed. The wo®*f lying naturally in bed, nexi w wall - . t n The tap on a small gas the room, which is fed from • in-the-slot meter, was i“ irn ed off position. When the tap w® B A on. there was a supply or K window in the room was open two or three inches at the WP-
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26824, 1 September 1952, Page 6
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