SHOCKING TRAGEDY
■ IN HAWKE'S BAY.. (By TelfiEKiph.—PreEa Association.) Napier, November 13. • A shocking tragedy occurred at Clive this afternoon. The bodies of : a married woman, named Georgina Anthony, wife of Alfred Anthony, wool-classer, and a man named Norman Richards, employed at . the -P-akipaki Freezing Works, were found lying on i a bed in Anthony's house,each with the arteries of an arm severed at the elbow.
Mrs. Anthony was to have left by the mail train on a. visit to her mother, who lives at Castlccliff, Wangaiiui, and her husband bade her' an affectionate good-bye at-7 a.m. ■ before going to; work. , On returning at six o'clock in the evening ho saw her hat on tho table ;\.ul looked in the rooms, for her, finding her and Richards as .stated. Both bodies were still warm. A razor was lying on the tablo- by the bedside. There were no signs of a struggle.
The woman left a note, but the contents are not to be disclosed until the inquest, which is to be held to-morrow morning. .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 8
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173SHOCKING TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 8
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