CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14610, 8 March 1922, Page 5

CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

EPIDEMIC AT HOME. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDIES. Press Association —Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Wednesday, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. The epidemic of critics of violence continue. Mrs Sarah Blake, a widow, and keeper of the Crown and Anchor Inn at Henley, was found with her throat cut and her head battered. The motive is a mystery as about £SOO in an unlocked box was untouched.

A tragedy is also reported in a fashionable flat at Fulham. The body of a young woman, Gertrude Gates, known as Olive Young, was discovered in a bathroom gagged, with her throat cut and her head battered.

A man, who was a frequent visitor, left huriedly in the morning, telling the maid not to disturb Miss Gates, who was sleeping.

A double tragedy occurred at Woodgree, Hampshire. A young cjuple were found dead in bed in a bungalow which they occupied alone, with partially emptied glasses of wine alongside the bed. The couple are apparently a wealthy man and ( ex-soldier named Vincent Quinn, and a woman who has not yet been, identified. —United Service.