DEATH IN GARDEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 December 1931, Page 5

DEATH IN GARDEN

(Press. AsSh.—

JUGULAR VEIN SEVERED BY DEEP WOUND UNHAPPY .MARRIED LIFE

-By Telegraph— Copyright) .

WANGANUI, Monday. The death of Alfrpd George Donaldson, who died last night on the frpnt lawn of his home in Dublin Street, was caused by loss of blood from a deep wound low down on the left shoulder, which severed the jugular vein. Describing thb wound, Mr. B. Brewer, who lived next door, said it was about an inch and a-haif long, and evidently done with a very sharp instrument. •• Before marrying Donaldson the victim's wife was married to a man nanied Walker, and there was one son of that marriage, Walter Walker, said to be about 16 yeafs of age, who had been living at home until recently. A tradesman states that he knew that the parties had had numerous quarrels. One evening recently Mrs. Donaldson called *at his home with her clothing hadly torn. She said she had quarreiled with her husband, and intiinated that she intended to leave him after Christmas. Calling for a doctorj Alfred George Donaldson bleeding from a deep gash in the throat, rushed through his home, Dublin Street, at 10 o'clock on Sunday night and collapsed on the front lawn, where he died before the arrival of a doctor. The police later found a long breadknife on the scene of the tragedy.