AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1928, Page 3

AUCKLAND TRAGEDY

A PROBABLE THEORY. (Australian Press Association & Sun. AUCKLAND. Jan. 27. Tile theory advanced as to why Peter William Class she’: his wife at Lnin.it CheviJier, and then committed suicide, in that he feared he might lose his eyesight, as his eyes had been troubling him. Tlie inquest was (ruin’d this morning. Evidence of identification wagiven in both cases by Constable Spellman. ol I Villi (bn a Hit. \i lia bad known iima'- *d for let- pa-.*, eighteen mouths. The inquiry was then adjourned sine die. I|t is believed that the- late Peter Gloss was of German extraction, hut his military discharge, found ly the police after a thorough search of the house vesiterday afternoon. showed that he was born in London, and had I.ecu di .charged from the N.Z. Expeditionary Force in October. 1917. as unfit for active service on account of wounds received in action. His service amounted to one year and 244 days. Cl oss married soon alter his return to civil life.

Gloss won the Auckland provincial middleweight championship in 1914, and retained the title up till the time when he joined the N.Z.E.F.. Seven or eight years ago Closs appeared in a. number of welterweight bouts, after his recovery from a wrist wound.