BRISBANE TRAGEDY.
A JEALOUS HUSBAND. Briebane, Jan. 31. According to the story told by Mrs. Laydon, her husband was a returned soldier. He suffered from the effects of gas. He and Whitford were very friendly and Whitford frequently visited the house to play cards. Laydon also assisted Whitford in the election campaign. Then the breach came. Laydon accused his wife of certain relations between herself and Whitford, which she denied. Quarrels followed, wit hthreats against Whitford. On the night of the tragedy he asked her to accompany him to a picture show.
When Laydon saw Whitford and his wife entering the vestibule he dragged his wife thither and accused Whitford of breaking up his home. Whitford smacked Laydon across the face and then walked out. Laydon. still draggoing his resisting wife, followed and fired five shots with an automatic pistol at Whitford in the presence of the latter’s wife. Mr. Lay lon attributed the crime to the madness of unfounded jealousy
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 February 1924, Page 5
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161BRISBANE TRAGEDY. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 February 1924, Page 5
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