DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT MARTON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1040, 17 December 1912, Page 3

DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT MARTON.

GIRL AND MAN SHOT DEAD,

SEQUEL TO LOVE AFFAIR

Palmerston, Dec. 16.

Word has been received of a double tragedy at Marton Junction to day. A horsemanj riding along the road in the vicinity of the Marton Junction station, was near!}' thrown, through his horse shying at some object lying on the roadside. Pie rode up to see what the object was, and found it to be the body of a girl. He immediately reported the matter to the police.

Another body, that of a man, was also lying near. The man was reported to be H. W. Urquart, of Wellington, and the girl Uorna Gordon, of Marton. . The information so far obtained is. to the effect that Urquart is a carpenter, of Wellington, and that recently he was engaged at Marton as clerk of works on a residence in course of erection. While there he became acquainted with Miss Gordon, who was 20 or 21 years of age. Several letters had passed between them, but the relatives of the girl objected to the intimacy between the two. Urquart 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 to day, and asking her to exchange the letters that had passed between them with him.

The girl apparentl> had come in from Fern Flats, where she was residing with her relatives, and had gone to the train to keep the appointment. It was Urquart himself who brought the letters. They went a few chains away from the station, and there the tragedy had been committed 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 the right gide. The man was shot through the heart, and was dead. A revolver was lying near. The tragedy has caused a great sensation in Marten. The deceased is stated by the Wellington police to be the son of Mr Urquart, who resides at No. 3 Eewisville Terrace.