CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1927, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY

TIMARU YOUTH’S STORY

IT Al AH F, ,J niie ys. -An important link in the evidence leading up to dm cause ol the murder mid •suicide at .Manchester Street. ( hristchuirh. on Sunday morning, was revealed this morning. Edith .May Davis, the murdered woman. Inis a Irieml living m Timarit. He is a single man about nineteen years ol age. He has in his possession letters Tom the murdered woman, and also some ‘ snaps'’ of her and her husband. lie hath been writing to her for some time, addressing the letters p, Hie care of his sister. He Inis been in a state ot levered excitement since mieceivcd news of the tragedy, but d- - (lares that it was not a letter ol his that was iciuid by Davis before be murdered his wife. ".She came to Timarit on June 3," tie ■said this morning. “We went out together a good deaf, and she often complained about her husband. Site was ready to leave him tit any time.’* He went on to say that after ALr.s Davis returned to Christchurch they had kept up a correspondence. He had written two letters to her and

had received replies. On .Monday ! morning lie was shocked to hear of the j tragedy, and since then life had boon , scarcely bearable.

\\ itli Monday morning's mail came a letter from It is sister in Chrisiclmrch which stated that Airs Davis was intending to commence proceedings

against her husband for divorce. The young man stated that Davis was moody. He could not take a joke against himself. The smallest, pin-prick would cause him to go to Lis room and mope for hours on end. During those \ moods he would mumble and mutter ■ to himself. i