JEALOUS WIFE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21155, 30 September 1938, Page 10

JEALOUS WIFE

HUSBAND STRANGLED YOUNG SON’S DISCOVERY , While her four children slept in another room slim Mrs Agnes Florence Angliss, aged 37, strangled her husband in his bedroom at their home at Mitcham, Surrey. Then she went downstairs, fixed a rubber tube to the gas stove, lay down with her head on a grey silk cushion and gassed herself. Her 12-year-old son Dennis, wakened about 8 o’clock in the morning by the smell of gas, roused his elder brother, Thomas. They found their mother and father dead. Their 46-year-old father was lying across his bed, a piece of blind cord drawn tightly around his neck. There were signs of a struggle. Police are puzzled by the tragedy. They cannot understand how Mrs Angliss, a frail-looking woman, suffering from an impediment which rendered her almost speechless, could strangle her sft lOin heavily-built husband. But letters were found on the kitchen floor near the dead woman, indicating that there had been a quarrel between the husband and wife over another woman. In these letters Mrs Angliss said she was going to kill her husband and the four children.