MT. ALBERT TRAGEDY
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VERDICT ? OF MURDER AND SUICIDE WHILE INSANE
,— By Telegraph— Copyright)
Auckland, Monday. The inquest was concluded to-day into the deaths of Emily Constance Chappell and George McFarlane, victims of the recent Mt. Albert tragedy when McFarlane attaeked his housekeeper, Miss Chappell, with a tomahawk and suhsequently gashed his own throat with a razor. "I find that this unfortunate woman, Emily Constance Chappell died at Auckland hospital on October 6; the cause of her death heing a wound .inflicted by a patient, George McFarlane, when in a state of insanity," said the coronor in pronouncing his verdict. "In connection with McFarlane, I find that he eommitted suicide by cutting his throat while insane."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 356, 18 October 1932, Page 5
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117MT. ALBERT TRAGEDY Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 356, 18 October 1932, Page 5
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