GLASGOW TRAGEDY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3811, 21 September 1936, Page 6

GLASGOW TRAGEDY

DEATH OF TWO SISTERS. Two sisters lying dead in each other’s arms at their home in Glasgow—a tube connected to a gaspipe—a neatly written note telling how, grief-stricken over the death of a third sister, they had decided on a suicide pact. . . This was the tragedy enacted in a flat in Ruthven-street, Glasgow, and discovered by a fourth sister when she returned home at night after visiting friends. The dead sisters were Miss Christina Humphrey, aged 58, and Miss Lily Humphrey, aged 46. When their sister, Miss Jenny Humphrey, aged 60, with whom they shared the flat, returned, she smelt gas as she stood knocking at the door. Failing to get a reply, she called the police, who forced open the door. Tho two women were found sitting in an easy chair in the kitchen, their arms clasped in an affectionate embrace. On the table lay a note in Lily’s handwriting addressed to Jenny. It told how she and Christina had tired of the stress and struggle of life after the death of their sister a year ago, and how they had become obsessed with the fear of ill-health. The dead women are stated not to have had any financial worries. Lily was employed in a Glasgow shop, and Christina acted as housekeeper in the flat.