BIRTHDAY TRAGEDY
MOTHER FOUND MURDERED. LONDON, May 19. Tw r o London 1 children;- taking: pre- . gents to their mother’s bedroom on her birthday yesterday, found her .dead on the bed. She bad been shot. Neighbours, hearing the children’s !shrieks, called the police, who- found the dead woman’s husband unconscious with' his head in a gas oven dn. the looked kitchen. . The man,.:-.was still breathing, 'and, after. artificial le-piration, he was taken to hospital. Later, his condition gave hopes of his recovery. The dead woman was Mrs James Fergus McMurray, of Grosvenor-road, .Muswellhill. The children who made the- tragic discovery were Mary (15). and Kathleen (12). Mr McMurray .was taken to- the- North' Middlesex Hospital.
A strange feature of the tragedy is that nq one, not, even the children, hoard a shot fired. The police mode an extensive search of every room in the house, and examined a number of papers.
Weeping, bitterly, the two children later left . the neighbour’s house, to which tlidy lvad been taken, to go to the* private! school which they had been attending’in’ Muswellhill: Arrangements . were made for them to sta v temporarily at the school.:l
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 8
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191BIRTHDAY TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 8
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