LOVE TRAGEDY AT MARTON.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 527, 18 December 1912, Page 5

LOVE TRAGEDY AT MARTON.

MAN AND GIRL .SHOT DEAD

FOUND BY ROADSIDE,

(BY ™.Kc;il.YlMl.—>'B.l-:SS ASSOCIATION.] Palmeraton North, Monday. Information has been received of a double tragedy at Marton Junction today. A horseman riding along the road in the vicinity of the Marton Junction station was nearly thrown through his horse shying at some object lying by the roadside. He rode up to see what the object was, and found it to be the bodv of a girl. Another body, that of a man, was lying near to the girl. The man was reported to be 11. *V. Urquhart, of Wellington, and the girl Lorna Gordon, uf Marton.

The information so far obtained is to the effect that Urquhart was a carpenter, of Wellington. Recently ho was engaged at Marton as clerk of works on a residence undergoing erection. While theio he became acquainted with Miss Gordon, who was twenty or twenty-one years of age. Several letters had passed between them. The relatives of the girl objected to any intimacy between the two. Urquhart had gone back to Wellington, and a day or two ago wrote to Miss Gordon from there, telling her that a friend of his would reach Marton by the Main Trunk express to-day, and asking her to exchange the letters that had passed between them with him.

The girl apparently had come in from Fern Flats, where she was residing with rdativos, and had gone to the train to keep tho appointment. It was Urquhart himself who brought the letters. They went a few chains away from the station, and there the tragedy had taken place by the roadside.

The girl when found was not quite dead, but expired soon after assistance arrived. The discovery was made about an hour after the train had left. The girl was shot twice, in the arm and in the right side. The man was shot through the heart, and was quite dead. A revolver was lying near. The tragedy has caused a great sensation in Marton. CORONER'S INQUEST. A DEADLY EMBRACE. Marton. Tuesday. An inquest on the bodies of Urquhart and Miss Gordon was begun to-day. It was stated that the weapon used was a Browning automatic revolver. Three shots were fired. When found the girl was breathing but soon expired. She was face upward and the man was face downwards in the gorse bush, with his left arm round tha girl's neck.