HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16377, 27 June 1927, Page 7

HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD

ANOTHER CHRISTCHURCH .MURDER , * * '— . WAS JEALOUSY THE MOTIVE? (Per Press Association.; CHRISTCHURCH, last night, A double tragedy occurred at 294, Manchester street, early this morning, when Frederick Charles Davis, '36, telegraph linesman, murdered his wife, Edith May Davis, 19 yeais and one month, by cutting her throat with a razor. Ho then committed suicide by cutting his own throat and .inserting a gas tune iii his month. The tragedy was discovered bv Vera Wilson, sister of the dead’woman, and Dorothy Finney, who were sleeping in the house. At 2 a.m. Dorothy Finney heard a scream and awoke Vera Wilson. They heard sounds of moaning and were afraid Davis .had killed' his wife, as A ia alleged ho had previously threatened to.do. • , •

They were: frightened to move till 6.43 a.m., when they climbed through a window and called in two neighbors, who discovered the bodies. Both husband and wife. were clad m their night clothes and the woman was Jyiiig in a bed soaked with blood. A blood-stained razor was lying closed on the foot of the bed. The. man was lying iii a .pool of blood in the scullery, with al gas tube beside him! ‘ ■ It is understood that Davis, who was of a taciturn disposition, was devoted to his wife, but jealous of her. The inquest- was opened this, afternoon before Mr. Mosley, S:M., when Joseph Win.. Davis,, brother of the deceased, identified the bodies. He said his brother and sister-in-law had called on him at Fendalton on Saturday night, and remained for some time, and seemed jovial and happy. *■ • The inquest was adjourned sine die. Deceased leave . a child three months .old, who was in the room at the timo of the murder. / THE BURWOOILTRAGEDY # (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Yesterday afternoon, when the discovery of a blood-stained overcoat had stimulated the police to make a further search of the scene of the murder, a reporter found throe pieces of bloodstained mg like ch9e.se cloth and handed them to a detective. The police state .that there is no doubt that the stains on the overcoat and cloth are blood stains. ANOTHER MURDER >' V. / TRAGEDY AT TAMWORTII {Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn-J SYDNEY, June 26. The body of William Thorley, 49, a Well-known shearer and rabbit trapper, was found. under a ; bridge in Anzac Park, Tamworth, with a gaping wound in the back of his head. It was known that Thorley had over £3OO in an inside pocket of his vest when he entered the park, and it is surmised that the murder waited for him and attacked him from behind. Buttons were ripped from the vest and the money was missing. The murderer, after committing the crime, apparently carried the body to the bridge and hid it underneath. .