AGED COUPLE’S TRAGEDY

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1933, Page 7

AGED COUPLE’S TRAGEDY

WOMAN HAS HEAD BATTERED man with wound in throat. DISCOVERY MADE BY THEIR SON. PAIR IN AUCKLAND HOSPITAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A tragic discovery was made by a young man at Grange Road, Mount Eden, about 5.30 this morning, when he found his mother lying on her bed with serious head injuries and his father in another part of the house with his throat cut. The injured are Nellie Gordon, aged 65, and John Shaw Gordon, aged 68. Both are now in the Auckland hospital. The man is in a serious condition and the woman’s condition is not serious. ' • . ~ It was about 5.30 when the son Maurice, aged 22, made the discovery. He summoned Dr. Breadon, who on his arrival at the house sent for an ambulance and the police. He found Mrs. Gordon with head injuries lying on a bed in a front room and Gordon with a serious wound in his throat lying in a critical state in a back bedroom. A razor was found in the room where Mrs. Gordon was lying. • It is stated that after calling her son Mrs. Gordon staggered from a back room to the front, taking hei' husband’s razor with her. Both Gordon and Mrs. Gordon were conscious when taken to hospital. Mrs. Gordon's bedroom is at the back of the house, and her husband slept in another room. The house is divided into two flats, and although only a wall separated them a young married couple in the next flat heard no sound during the night; nor did the neighbours on either side. The Gordons are well known in the district, having lived in the same house for over 20 years. There is one son, who sleeps in a building away front the house, and one married daughter, who lives at Wellington. Gordon was operated on this morning.