DOUBLE TRAGEDY
MAN AND WIFE DEAD. POISON JBOTTLE NEARBY. Press Association —Copyright. HAMILTON, This Day. A double tragedy was revealed this morning when the police forced an entry to the fruitshop of Lees and Co, of Victoria Street, and found lying dead on a bod at the rear c* the premises, Edward B. Lees (89) and his wife, Ileen Myrtle Lees (use Miss Elinn) (28). The shop had been closed for several days and the couple apparently had been dead for about three days. In the kitchen adjacent to the bedroom was a small bottle which had contained poison. The fruit and confectionery business conducted by the deceased had not been prosperous, and was to have been closed to-day. The father of Lees, who has a larm and shop properties in the --To Ayvaimitn district, visited Hamilton yesterday, and finding his son’s shop closed assumed he and his wife had left. Lees' had served in the war with the. eleventh North Auckland Mounteds, and was invalided home.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 46, 29 June 1929, Page 6
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