TRAGEDY AT PONSONBY
HUSBAND FINDS WIPE DEAD.
(Special to “Northern Advocate.’’)
AUCKLAND,' This' Phy.
With a self-inflicted razor ' wound in her throat, Mrs Bessie Gregory, aged <53, of 31 Anglesea Street, Ponsonby, was found dead in the' sun porch of .her home’ between 7 and 8 o’clock yesterday mbrning. Mrs Gregory had had a, bad attack of influenza about five weeks ago, and this, according to her family, had left her in a..state, of. great depression. • , .
Her nerves had obviously suffered considerably. '
, “ About two .o ’clock yesterday morning mother woke and complained about a pain in her back,” said a daughter, “but father managed to coax her off to sleep. ’ When father awoke about seven o’clock, mother was hot in bed.. He searched the place and found her dead on the porch. She had apparently been dead for throe or four hours.’’
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Northern Advocate, 9 August 1929, Page 4
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