DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3032, 20 March 1917, Page 5

DOUBLE TRAGEDY

SEQTfEb TO A PRIXETXG BOTH'. j?.V T«i"graph.--■Prpss Association. Nelson, March ID. A doublo tragedy is reporied from tbo Howard goldficld, a few miles from ilurcluson, ivhero two miners, named Abraham Turner, aged about 60, and James Knight, wero found dead in a. hut on tbo claim ihey worked iu parinersbip. They bad been on a. visit to Nelson .last ■week, and after their return Knight, developed delirium tremens, nnd Turner had to set the assistance, of other miner:; to look n.ft.er him. A man named stayed in the but on Friday night, leaving on Saturday morning to get stores. On his return at .10.20 a.in,, ho found Turner dead on tho floor and Knight on tha bed with his throat cut in two places, but -still alive. T/carmouHi went i-o oommunicato with tbo police, and <>n returning about noon found that Knight had exploded a detonator in his mouth, -which inflicted, terrible."injuries. Hβ died about an hour later. An examination shoved Ilia I. Turner bad. received a blmy behind tho ear, evidently inflicted with tbo back ol an ftje. The bodies woro I alien to Jfurnhipon, "n-hero an inquest was held to-day. A verdict, -was returned that Turner died from injuries inflicted with a blunt instrument, but that there, waa no evidence to [-how how or by whom tbo bloiv Trsi; delivered, and that Knight died from injuries self-inflicted vrnilo in a state- of unsound mind. Knight attempted to commit suicido some monibs ago by cul.tiug bis throat.