THE TAURANGA TRAGEDY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9646, 11 February 1892, Page 5

THE TAURANGA TRAGEDY.

JBBSS ASSOCIATION.! NAPIEE, Feb. 10. Private r /mssages from Tauranga received here by tlje relatives of Mrs Munro state that she and the third child are alive, and are like),y to recover. AUCKLAND, Feb. 10. 'At the inquest on the bodies of the victims of the Tauranga tragedy, a verdict of wilful murder was returned agains't Dunorm Munro, with the rider that ’ne should never have been let oat of 'che asylum, and had not been properly locked aft<sr by his family. Mrs Mutnro is still alwe, but unconscious, and in » critical state,' The report that the otiher child is dead is incorrect, but all hopes of the poor little boy recovering are als o given up. In bis evidence at'the inquest on the bodies of George, John and Lilian Munro, the victims of the Taur?.n,ga tragedy, Dr Sullen, who was called in. when the murder was discovered, deposed th at for some time past he had considered Munro dangerous and insane. The man frequently suffered from religious mania, A few days ago Mrs Munro called on him Ttnd showed him a bruise caused by her husband, and sta bed that she was in fear of her life and the J ives of her children. He reported this to Wrs Bodett (Munro's mother) and Peter Munro, his brother, and said Munro would do something if he was not properly looked after. He also reported to the fyolice. Peter Munro, brother of the aoc used, admitted that Dr Bullen had told b,im six months ago that his brother shoul'i be watched, but witness understood the doctor to believe that he would do injury not to others but to himself. Sergeant Keiley said that when he asked Mrs Munro if she considered her husband dangerous, she replied that she was not afraid, but as she had to nurse a baby she would require assistance. He had heard nothing about Munro beating his wife, as abated in Dr Bullen’e evidence. During the inquest the prisoner Munro was seized with a fit, and caused a sensation by singing hymns. He had to be taken out of the r oom.