HOLLAND PARK TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1932, 28 January 1919, Page 3

HOLLAND PARK TRAGEDY.

VERDICT' Oh’ WILFUL MURDER. London, Tan. 24. At the inquest on Major Scion, who was found shot dead in his cousin’s house after an interview with Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford, il was stated that Scton frequently visited Mrs-Rutherford'dur-ing her husband’s absence 1 . Airs Rutherford’s who is a hand--some woman, was present. The Rutherford's maid gave evidence that the marriage was an unhappy one. On the day of the tragedy Rutherford locked up Ids wife in the hitler’s room. The coroner read a letter from Mrs Rutherford written last October, begging her husband to divorce her. A verdict was returned of wilful murder. A typiste in a Ministerial oflice in Wellington was formerly secretary to Sir dames Roberts, Bari, (father of Airs Rutherford, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Rutherlord). This gentleman.” says his late secretary, “is a well known figure in commercial and political circles in the Old Country. He is a self-educated and self-made man, who began his life as ii mill hoy, and now owns the town of Salt a ire,-one of Yorkshire s ‘model villages/ with two or three country seats, of which the most notable is the ancestral home of the Earls of Perth, at Strathmore, Scotland. Sir James, although so successful and powerful in business and public life, has had a tragic career. His eldest son unexpectedIv developed a fatal disease and died in South Africa, where his father had bought an estate for him, in the hope of his recovery. His next eldest son was cut down in the prime of life by the recurrence of malarial fever, contracted during a tour through South America in his youth. His youngest son met with a tragic death at Portrush, in Ireland, during a holiday there. Now comes the tragedy connected with his daughter, Mrs Rutherford, who was always a lively and popular ■§W.”