DOMESTIC QUARREL
HUSBAND COMMITS SUICIDE
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST
OABLB— PRKBH AKHuOiATION- ■COPYBIOH'* . ' LONDON, Sept, 23. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Walter Mourilyan, a solicitor, of Richmond, Surrey, who was found dead in his flat at Putney with his head inside the oven of a gas cooker.
His widow admitted that she quarrelled with deceased on the day before his death. Deceased had an extraordinary and ungovernable temper. His previous wife, interrupting, shouted: “I won’t let you run him down, you wicked woman.” The interjector was removed from the court in hysterics.
Replying to the coroner, the widow denied assaulting her husband with tongs.
The coroner read a passage from deceased’s last letter declaring: “I have no doubt that the cruel, cunning wife of mine will put all the blame upon me. It is not true.” The coroner, summing up, said he thought the widow was not as terribly to blame as the letter hinted. A verdict was returned ,of suicide while of unsound mind.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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168DOMESTIC QUARREL Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 5
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