A WIFE’S REMORSE

Evening Star, Issue 19794, 18 February 1928, Page 9

A WIFE’S REMORSE

THE SELWYN TRAGEDY THE OTHER MAH [Per United Press Association.] ' CHRISTCHURCH, February 17.' I An inquest was held to-day concert* ing the death of the second victim of the Selwyu tragedy, Florence Annie Washbourno, wile of William Henry, Wash bourne, of Selwyn, who committed; suicide on Monday night after attempt-'; ing to shoot his wife. j Evidence was given that Mrs Washbourne was twenty-live years of age.There were four children, the eldest being seven years of age and the youngest seven months. Until a fortnight ago Washbourno and his wife had lived apart under agreement, but about two weeks ago she returned home and the husband accepted her. It was stated that the husband had been worried because of his wife’s relations with another man in the district. After Washbourne’s body was found on Tuesday morning, Mrs Washbourno knelt beside it, weeping and repeating: “Oh, daddy, why did you miss me?’’ She was interviewed by a policeman, to whom sho-had admitted that she had been familiar with another man and that this was the cause of the trouble with her husband. She did not, however, give any indication of her intention to commit suicide. In the afternoon afterher husband’s suicide, Mrs Washbourno disappeared. It was clear from the evidence that the woman could not have got into the dam hy accident. A verdict was returned of suicide by drowning.