TRAGIC DEATHS
A WOMAN. AND CHILD P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. A woman and her daughter were found dead in a gas-filled room, in King Edward Parade, Deyonport, last evening. They were Edith Winifred Fraser, about 45, and Judith Brodie Fraser, 8. A neighbour notified the police that neither the mother nor daughter had been seen for several days. The police found the windows shut and the doors locked, arid the room where the bodies were found was filled with gas from, the open jet of a stove. Mrs. Fraser's husband, Chief Engineroom Artificer in the H.M.N.Z.S. Leander, was killed in action on board the cruiser in July last year. An inquest was opened this morning and adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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117TRAGIC DEATHS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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