CASE OF DOUBLE SUICIDE.
(by telegraph.) Wellington, August IS,
Mathew Henderson, on a charge of two offences alleged to have been committed at Christchurch, did not appear at the Magistrate's Court this morning, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. On a detective going to the Empire Hotel at noon to arrest Henderson, the door was found to be locked, and on breaking in the door it was found that Henderson and a young lady named Bligh, supposed to be a daughter of a stonemason, were lying on a bed apparently dead. It was ascertained that they had taken strychnine, and emetics were afc once applied, but without avail in the case of Hen? derson, who died in a few minutes. "The lady is still alive, but in a critical condition.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 18 August 1880, Page 2
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