WOMAN AND MAN

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1930, Page 6

WOMAN AND MAN

ROUND WITH THROATS CUT.

ißy Telegraph—Press Association)

AUCKLAND, February 19

Mrs Agnes Beesley, aged 13, was found dead with her throat cut in tlio living room of her home at 21 jt’oeh Avenue, Dominion Road, tonight. At the- same time Wiliam Potter aged 55, single, who was a. friend of. the dead woman’s husband, and had hoarded at the house for three or four years, was found in his bedroom with gaping wounds in his neck and chest. Beside him lay a bloodstained razor. Pi,, was rushed to the Auckland Hospital and at a late hour his condition was extremely serious. The discovery was made hv the doad woman’s husband, John Frederick Bees-ley, under very pathetic circumstances. He got his first job to-clay, after being unemployed for a considerable time, and returned home about .six o’clock. His three children (two girls aged about ten and six respectively and a crippled hoy, aged about eight) ran down the street to meet him. They told him that when they went home from school they found both the front and hack doors wore locked and they thought their mother must have gone to town. Tliev had been playing in the street with other children.

Mr Beeslev left the children with a neighbour, and on entering the house through a window, found his wife lving dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor. Nearby were some garments and a thimble and needle, indicating that she had been sitting on the settee sewing.

Beeslev then went to the front of the house and found Potter lying by the .side of the bed. Potter was still conscious hut could not speak and with his hands, feebly made signs to Beeslev.

Beeslev called for a neighbour and a doctor was summoned. Tt is stated Potter had been out of work for some time. His last position was a night porter at a hotel in the citv.