DUAL HORROR
MURDER AND SUICIDE
CORONTAL VERDICT
(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) PALMERSTON N., Wednesday
Verdicts that Margaret Ellen Motley was murdered by Arthur Soley, and that Soley committed suicide, were returned by the coroner this morning at an inquest resulting from the tragedy which occurred last Wednesday evening.
The coroner added that it seemed quite clear from the evidence that the unfortunate girl was the victim of an unscrupulous man who posed as a widower and became engaged to her, though well knowing he Avas not in a position to marry her. Having in the end confessed his deception, Soley apparently brooded over the affair and- deliberately planned to end both their lives[.
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Northern Advocate, 20 April 1933, Page 6
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