THE SELWYN TRAGEDY
A SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT WIFE DISAPPEARS WASHBOURHE'S WILL-" DELIBERATELY RUINED HIS LIFE" I.Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH. February 15. At the inquest on the Sehvyn tragedy the corojier returned a verdict that William Henry Wnshbourne committed suicide by shooting. He left a. will giving all his property to his daughter Joyce, and stating that 'm wife had deliberately ruined his ile, and he did not wish to be buried nth her. The police state that Mrs Washiourue disappeared yesterday afterloon, and has not been found, despite Bareli.
[Henry Washbourne, aged thirty years, a farmer, shot himself dead at Sehvyn on Monday evening. Presumably lie had entered his wife’s bedroom and tired a gun at her as she lay in bed, but the shot missed and entered the wall, Washbourne is said to have, suffered from depression. He had been separated from his wife for some time, but they were reconciled two months ago. There are four children, one a baby. Mrs Washbourne is twenty-eight years of ago.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 5
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169THE SELWYN TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 19791, 15 February 1928, Page 5
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