TRAGIC DEATH OF MOTHER

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1932, Page 9

TRAGIC DEATH OF MOTHER

CHILD SLEEPS BESIDE BODY

DISCOVERY BY THE HUSBAND.

HIS ABSENCE FOR FIVE DAYS.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Rotorua, •June; 29.

Death in a lonely house on :the. shores of Lake Rotoehu, 20 miles from: Rotorua, overtook Muriel Ida Angell, a married woman, some time between 8.30 aim. on Saturday and 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday during her husband’s absence. - Her little daughter, 24 years old, was feffind' asleepbeside her when her husbanfigmade the tragic discovery on Wednesday evening. The child was well, but evidently had been crying and had not been able to obtain food. As it was too young it could not tell the circumstances of the mother’s death. When discovered by her husband Mrs. Angell was lying upon the bed fully dressed. The body showed no signs, ot violence. The husband had left home at 8.30 on Saturday morning and did not return till after dark on Wednesday. The house is in a very lonely spot on the shores of Lake Rotoehu, and the nearest neighbour is three miles away, which probably accounts for the deatn remaining so long undiscovered. -T e police are investigating.