HUSBAND STRANGEED

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 99, 19 October 1938, Page 1

HUSBAND STRANGEED

J.WALOIS \\ li' K'S ACT LOIniaJN, Aug. 'ld. —While her Jour chiiurcn siepu jii another joom slim .Mrs- Agnes r'loreneo Angliss, aged- Hi, sirauglcu her iiusl>and iu lus bedroom eaii.v at their home in .Wing s-road, „M ivcliam, Surrey. Tneii she. went downstairs, iixed a rubber tube to the gas-stove, la\ down with her head oil a grey silk cushion and gassed herself. tier ld-year-eld sou Dennis, wakened about S o’clock iii the morning, by Ino smell of gas, roused his older brother, | Thomas. They Jound their mctiier and lather dead. 'I heir 10-year-ohl father was lying across his bed, a piece el: blind, cord drawn tigiitly .around' .his neck. There were signs oi a struggle. Police arc puzzled by the tragedy. They cannot understand Imw .Sirs. Augliss, a. trail-looking woman suffering from an impediment which rendered her almost speechless, could strangle her sJ‘t, fOins. heavily built husband. Bill; letters were found oil the kitchen floor near the dead woman, indicating that there had been a quarrel between the husband and >vifd over another woman. In those letters .Mrs. Anglins sajil she was going;- to kill her husband and the four children.'