A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES
Evidence at the inquest into the death of Mrs Martin Bntler. a Montreal widow who was found dead beside an open gas jet in her room, revealed that the woviun was 65 years old and unable to work any longer; that her first-born had been scalded to death in infancy; that her daughter had perished in the "Herald” fire in Montreal in 1310; that her son. Private Martin Butler, had died in the war; that on April I Tth, 11 years ago, she had lost her husband, and that on the morning of that day this year her body was discovered by neighbours --a suicide.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 11
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109A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 11
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