THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1924, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

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AUCKLAND. July 24. Mrs Hath siifi'eK-if acutely from a nervous breakdown and "a- subject t'' delusions. She had been in the care of a trained nurse lor the last three week', and was under the impression that someone "as going to poison her. When a visitor called about mid-day-on Sunday. Mrs Oath asked the housemaid lo tell her son Harold that his mother wauled bint. Sbe walked along

the passage ami luel the liny at the hatbroom door. She took him into the ln.it broom and shut the door. Ihe nurse heard a -'-ream Irom the bathroom and "hen she entered by a window .she lon ml .Mrs Datli bleeding eopiotislv from a wound in the throat. She told the nurse that -lie had cut Harold’s throat mid her own. She died within two minutes. The hoy had os. caped from tile bathroom, ran round the house and fell into his lather's arms, immediately collapsed and died. Apparently the demented womim took the razor from the Cabinet in the bathroom and while speaking softly to her .son slashed his threat, the jugular vein being severed.