AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 10

AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

OPENING OF INQUEST (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. An inquiry into the tragedy at Raymond street, Point Chevalier, on Thursday morning, was commenced yesterday when inquests wero opened before the Coroner (Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.) concerning the deaths of Peter William Clos, aged about 33, and Beatrice Mabel Clos, aged about 40, who were found shot. Evidence of identification was given, and the inquiry was then adi journed sine die. Detectives in charge of the case expect to have the necessary evidence ready by the end of next week. It is believed that Clos was of German extraction, but his military discharge found by the police after a thorough search of the house yesterday afternoon showed that ho was born in London, and had been discharged from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in October, 1917, as unfit for active service on account of wounds received in action. Clos married soon after his return to civil life, Mrs. Clos being a widow with two daughters and a son. Well known people connected with boxing, state that Clos was of sober and steady habits, although of quiet and reserved disposition. A close friend of Clos was G. Lang, of Ponsonby. "Clos was a different man after he returned from the war," said Lang, "He was wounded several times, and everything seemed to get on his nerves. He was also very worried about his eyesight, which was failing rapidly, and about his wife's health." Witness stated that Clos seemed as though he had had no sleep for some time. Clos could not forget the war. When he was overcome by fits of depression, which were frequent, he always talked about the horrors of the war and the waste of life. "I wonld rather kill myself than go blind," he had once told Lang.