EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4924, 11 January 1926, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.

SENSATION AT NGARUAWABIA.

Further details in connection with the extraordinary affair at Ngai'uawahia on Thursday night (states the Waikato Times), when a girl of 18, Muriel Tetzlaff, took ammonia, allegedly at the instigation of Roy Charles Dc-rn, a young clerk of 19, employed in Hamilton, show that the young woman states that Dorn asked her to write a (letter stating that she had done whatever she would do of her own free will. Dorn said that if she did not commit suicide he would. She said she loved him too deeply for that, and would sooner do it herself. She wrote out the letter as he desired, but afterwards tore it up. On the morning of the 7th Dorn came to the boardinghouse where she was staying, and they had a further conversation, during which an arrangement was .made that she should commit suicide.

She subsequently called at the place where Dorn was employed, and he asked her if sjie intended to keep her promise. On this occasion she was provided with another me'ajis of doing the deed. She came to Ngaruawahia and took a dose of one of the ingredients- but it had no effect. She took the ammonia about 4.30' pan. and immediately became violently ill. Three letters addressed one to th* mother of the girt, one to her brother, and one to Dorn’s mother are held by the police as evidence ; also the bottle from which she had drunk. The purport of the letters was tha,t she intended to commit suicide. The girl has since been removed to the Waikato Hospital for treatment. Her condition remains, unchanged.