DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT GREYMOUTH.

Western Star, 7 March 1939, Page 3

DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT GREYMOUTH.

YOUNG MAN AND GIRL FOUND DEAD.

SOME MYSTERIOUS FEATURES. i GREYMOUTH, March 5. Soon after 10 o'clock on Saturday evening a double tragedy, with mysterious features, occurred at Greymouth. Alvis Williams, single, aged 23, head waitress at the Royal Hotel, whose parents, Mr and Mrs Thomas Williams, live in Bealey street, Hokitika, was found about 11-30 dead in her room in Mayfair Flats, Mawhera quay, -and Frederick Jack Kitching, single aged 26, a painter and paper hanger, to whom it is believed she hiid been engaged, was found soon after midnight in a dying condition at the residence of his parents, Mr and Mill. Kitching, Shakespeare street. There is at the- moment a lack of details about the movements of both -victims on the evening of the tragedy, but it is known that the dead girl retired to her room about 9.30 in her usual happy frame of mind. It was not until about 11.30 that she was found by a girl, who shared her room, dead in bed and fully dressed. She was lying on her back between . the sheets with her arms crossed on 'her chest. Her neck was blue am. swollen. There were no signs of any struggle, although her wristlet watch had stopped at 10.20. Blood was at her nose,- on the top sheet and on her dress■ The electric light was on in the too*,. the door of which was locked and the key was inside the room on the floor. Some time after midnight Kitching was found lying on the floor of a room at his parents' house. Medical aid was called immediately, but in spito of the strenuous efforts of Dr W. A. B.rd. Kitching died. A post mortem and an inquest on bf>ih victims will be held.