WIFE’S BODY UNEARTHED
DETECTIVES DIG IN GARDEN SUSPECTED MAN’S SUICIDE REVELATION OF TRAGEDY ALLEGATIONS BY POLICE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. Adelaide, July 23. Detectives detained Lawrence Edson, aged 28, a tram conductor, and a former policeman, telling him they were going to dig up his garden in consequence of the reported disappearance of his wife. While the digging was proceeding Edson whipped out an automatic revolver and shot himself dead. Detectives discovered Mrs. Edson’s body, clothed in a print dress and enclosed in a tarpaulin, nine inches underground and with a cement covering, buried in a shed in the back yard. The husband, according to the police, was engaged to another young woman.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1931, Page 7
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