WHEN DEATH WHISPERED

NZ Truth, Issue 1178, 28 June 1928, Page 8

WHEN DEATH WHISPERED

A Problem For Psychologists In Singular Double Tragedy ■■'■'■ (From "N.Z. Truth's" New Plymouth Representative.) The complexity of distorted ideas that gather m a- woman's mind and induce her to take life is yet to find a logical and comprehensible definition With such things as the "grey matter." AND this was never better exempli- mind Of the awful thing 1 that was soon ned than m the tragedy of the to occur. , peaceful, picturesque homestead of Tne first suggestion of tragedy the Surreys at Huirangl m the early wa? a niuffled' thu'd and a. woman's hours of a recent morning. tscream about 1.30 the following Mother and daughter were found morning. , shot dead m a locked bedroom. - g ur rey jumped out of bed and rushThe problem tor those who deal In e a to his wife's room, the doors of the brain is made more intricate when w hich he found to be locked, the facts shovr thatu although the He then ran round to the window, mother was suffering from indifferent on i y to find that the blind was down, health, the family relations were happy reflecting a flickering light from within aild peaceful. : the room. Then there was the other peculiar He threw up the sash and climbed feature which "Bbowed that for some inside to encounter a horrible speoBintular reason, Mrs. Surrey had Un- taolp. pulsively decided to take both her A candle on the dressing-table oast daughter's and her own life after tak- an eerie, almost ghostly, glow over the ing off only one Stocking. . pallid features of a girl at the point of The vlotlma were Eleanor Emwa de | n h c'e ' WM lying In bed In her night Surrey, aged 49, and Berya .Minnie. a ttire, as though sleep had been a Burrey, aged 19, wife and daughter meroiful oloak at the moment of respectively of Peroy H. 3. Surrey, death, - ul«Ulw Min^nJ fipiriw Her left breast bore the wound made a highly respeoted. farmer, by a flrfid ftt polnt . b i ank range Four, and a-half miles up the Te and she drew her last breath almost lArei road, after it ■ ' as her father enleaves the main . tered the room. North Road near .-, ■ / . y^ . Not far away, Waitara, lived the (•,WlP*f%mP I JlQMl)&rti the bod y of tne (family over whom- \JiUVdUIfIC JLSIdWWry mother lay stretchthe dark .cloud of, - '; ■■'■''.'■. - ' ' ' ■ ed out on the floor. is orr o w suddenly • ' ■;' ' 'She also' was atdescended. The homestead stands on ; tired m a nightgown, one foot being a hill some distance from the road, and.'' bare, the other w.lth a stocking on. "* spreading on every , side are smiling ■ She had a bullet wound m her left fields of well -cultivated farmlands. . breast. On account .' -of - Mrs. Surrey's ill- , By her side, leaning against her bed, health, her husband— who had himself was the gun. with a spent cartridge In been a more or less sick man for the the breach and another on the bed. J past three years — had occupied an- Alongside was an open book and a other room, while mother and daughter pair pf spectacles.* Sther" S9Parat6 bedS a ro ° m , to- The gun was usually kept m a ref^ofihe JSSIS!MSSdE^P^ whe^ehe^nt* tM V " 0°n S h? SSTwrss' sg£ and Kenneth ' "sheT^h^ l t*2r o^: About 7.30 p.m., Mrs. Surrey took on ' her husband, a glass of water. That The grief- stricken father lost no was the last time he was to see her time m summoning the rest of the alive. family, and notifying the police and . Although for over a year she had doctor. • been receiving constant medical treat- When Dr. R. I». Barclay, of Waitara, ment for insomnia— and m spite of the reached the house, however, life, Of fact that during the past few months course, was extinct. ' she had been' noticeably worried as a : About 8.40 a.m. Constable Palmer result — there certainly seemed nothing and Dr. G. P. Adamson arrived, while at all unusual m her- demeanor that Inspector Fraser and Detective Meiklehight. : ; John later came out from' New Ply-. The family were said to have .been mouth. 9 on the most affectionate terms. The inquest was opened later and She said good night to her husband adjourned sine die after formal eviwlthnut rnininsr nnv simnininn In his rinnofi of identification had been heard.

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