AUCKLAND MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 21504, 31 August 1933, Page 12

AUCKLAND MYSTERY

ELDERLY COUPLE INJURED HEAD AND THROAT WOUNDS (Peb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 30. A terrible discovery was made by a young man at Grange road, Mount Eden, about 5.30 this morning, when be found his mother lying on her bed with severe head injuries and his father 'in another part of the bouse with bis throat cut. The injured are: NELLIE GORDON, aged sixty-five. JOHN SHAW GORDON, aged sixtyeight. Both are now in the Auckland Hospital. The man is in a serious condition, but the woman’s condition is not serious. It was about 5.30 when the son, Maurice, aged twenty-two, made the discovery. He summoned Dr Dreadon, who, on his arrival at the house, sent for the ambulance and the police. _ Dr Dreadon found Mrs Gordon with serious head injuries lying on a bed in the front room. Mr Gordon, with a serious wound in his throat, was lying in a critical state in a bade bedroom. A razor was found in the room where Mrs Gordon was lying. It is stated that after calling her son, Mrs Gordon staggered from the back room to the front, taking her husband’s razor with her. Both Mr and Mrs Gordon w r ere conscious when, taken to hospital. Mrs Gordon’s bedroom is' at the back of the house and her husband slept in another room. The house is divided into two flats, and although only a wall separated them, a young married couple in the next flat heard no sound during the night, nor did the neighbours on either side. The Gordons are well known in the district, having lived in the same_ house for over twenty years. There is one son, who sleeps in a building away from the house, and one married daughter, who lives in Wellington. Mr Gordon was operated on this morning.