THE PLIMMERTON TRAGEDY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5760, 2 January 1897, Page 6

THE PLIMMERTON TRAGEDY.

[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Dkc. 31. In connection with the PJimmerton mystery, it. -lias been ascertained that Mr Brookes (his proper name is Braybrooke) came to Wellington with a young woman, who passed as his wife, somewhere about April, 1593, and went into lodgings with tho Kings. Whilo there Mrs King and her daughters had ample opportunity of noticing the clothes and effects of their lodgers, some of which, as telegraphed yesterday, they identified in connection with articles found at the scene of the tragedy. After living with the Kings for about three weeks Mr and Mrs Brookes took a boardinghouse in Ghuznee Street, which they kept till July, aud then sold out of it. Shortly after this they took another board-ing-house in Dixon Street, but a little later on Mis Brookes seems to have gone away up country somewhere, and the second Mrs Brookes with two children came on the sceno. The first woman was about twenty years of age and the second nearer fifty. The Dixon Street boardinghouse also jn-oved an unsuccessful venture, and was sold out by Messrs Townsend and Paul. Brookes was known to mako trips into the country, presumably to see the young Mrs Brookes, and just prior to tho supposed date of the tragedy, October, 1894, returned from one of "these trips looking very seedy and hard np. His position financially had gradually been getting worse and worse and then suddenly ho disappeared and was not afterwards heard of. Where his wife and children went is not yet known, nor has it yet been ascertained who was tho yonng woman who lived with Brookes as Lis wile aud who is supposed to bo ono of the victims of the tragedy.