DOUBLE FATALITY
WIFE AND CHILD FOUND DEAD
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WANGANUI, July 22. Late lasi' everiing'the IVodi'es *s{ Clara Elizabeth"’ 1 McOafmafck,-- aged about'thirty, arid a child of six months were found hy the' husband of the d'ea-d womfiri. in a.' giari-filled room at tlieir residence in- Sydney' Place. - ‘ It/appears that Mr" McCormack had be-riri 'differing from' deprebsifin"- for' some weeks, but every tiring in the house wqs found undisturbed’ by the husband, whose diimler nicely cooked; was ready on the stove awaiting hit arrival. The head' of thle woman was covered with a boat. Their irifant J daiughtet, Pn.trica, aged six months,' was in Wer cot in an adjoining room, which was filled with, gas fumes. Medical opinion was that both victims had 1 been - ' dead' ftir two hours before they were' discovered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 6
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135DOUBLE FATALITY Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 6
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