TRAGEDY AND MYSTERY.
MAN AND WIFE FOUND DEAD. WOMAN LYING TN BETID. MAN TN TTTE WASHOESE. Ttvo bodieh wore found last week in n house af Clifton Hill, Mel-Dom-jio. They Avon* those of Mieh!lo 1 O’Connor, a carpenter, aged a-E--HI 70. and his wife, Bridget O’Connor. The woman was lying dead in hod with the blankets pulled almost up to her ears. Her husband was lying face downward on the floor of the washousp at the rear of the premises. A constable knocked af (lie door but there was no answer, and he forced an entry. The place was in disorder. Tn one of the rooms he found the woman, and this was (piiekly followed by a .call from civilians accompanying him. They had discovered the dead man. r l In* deceased possessed a considerable sum of money. They owned (lie house in which their bodies were found as well as several tenements in the same street. Boxes containing their private papers had mu been disturbed, nor did the rooms appear to have been ransacked by robbers. For several days residents of the locality had been puzzled through not seeing (he old couple about. There had been no signs of life in the house for days, but, as the man and his wife kept very much to themselves, full significance was not attached to the fact of their disappearance.
The baker who used to call became suspicious that all was not well in the cottage, and communicated his misgivings h> two other residents of the neighbourhood, who informed the police. Uncooked food was found on the table, and the furniture was thrown about in great disorder. On the mantlepiece a bottle labelled “Poison" was found. The woman was found lymg face down in the bed and I lie body of ibe man was lying on its back, with a table on lop of him. O’Connor has visited the Hospital lately, but refused treatment as an out-patient. A neighbour who drove him borne from the Hospital left him at his front gate. TTe refused to allow the neighbour to cuter the bouse, and did not leave the gate until the neighbour bad driven awav.
According to residents, O'Connor was somewhat eccentric, but was fond of bis wife. Te refused all outside assistance when bis wife became ill, and fold bis neighbours that be would not allow a doctor to see her. He said be bad cured himself some years ago, and could do it again. Mrs O’Connor was so infirm that she often had to fake to her bed as the result of falling in the yard.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2776, 26 August 1924, Page 1
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436TRAGEDY AND MYSTERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2776, 26 August 1924, Page 1
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