DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 217, 11 June 1935, Page 10

DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Husband and Wife

Dead

GHASTLY DISCOVERY

Note to Police Pinned to Door

By Telegraph.—Press Association,

Auckland, June 10.

A tragedy is reported from Parakao, states a Whangarei message, where Mrs. Fraser Edwards, a young Maori woman, and her husband, Fraser Edwards, were found dead. Fraser llwards is a well-known Maori who was employed by Mr. C. L. Brown. Wilson’s Bridge, Parakao, in working, timber. Edwards did not turn up for work this morning, and Mr. Brown sent his son Harry, aged 13. to make inquiries. Harrv went to a lonely hut near the Mangakahia River, where Edwards and bis wife lived, but his calls evoked no response. Mr. Brown then visited the lint, and, on looking through the window, he witnessed a terrible sight. Mrs. Fraser Edwards was lying on the bed bleeding profusely from her head, and her husband was in the far corner of the but moaning and apparently very weak. A note addressed to the police was pinned to the whare door. The woman was dead and the husband died later.