MOTHERS DAUGHTER

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1931, Page 5

MOTHERS DAUGHTER

BURIED IN GARDEN': (United Press Association—By Electric '1 elegrapli - —Copy righ i.) LONDON, May 30. The police found the bodies of Mrs j Aland Bettis and her daughter, Freda, j aged twenty years, who had not been | seen lor, several (lavs, buried, in the garden at their home- in IL.4vedore., I Kent. J Her husband is an Education Officer, and i.s most respected in tne distrait. The pciice are seeking the husband, Lewis, who lias not been seeii 'for several days. The neighbours say the family appeared to have, lived ltappiv. The police broke up an inch-thick-concrete floor of a recently-constructed fishpond at the back of the house which the neighbours noted on Thursday night was covered with a tarpaulin. They found at a depth of four feet the bodies of the women, which were clad in pyjamas, and swathed in carpets anti sheets, and beside them was the body of the family dog in a hole covered with corrugated iron laid over concrete. It is understood that the preliminary examination did not reveal any marks of violence or of mutilation, Air Evans, tile Director of Education for the Kent County Council, who is the senior officer of Lewis, says that he received a letter from Lewis this week saying that ns the result of an accident Mrs Lewis and Miss Lewis were dead, and that, the officer must ■riot, be surprised to lemii that he had followed them, Air Evans sent tile letter to the authorities. Lewis’s age is about sixty. Hi a wife and daughter were prominent social workers. EXPERT SUSPECTS POISONING. LONDON, May 31. Sir B. Spilsbury, who has conducted a. post-mortem, is understood to confirm the suspicion that Airs Lewis and her daughter were poisoned.