TRAGIC DISCOVERY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 558, 15 June 1933, Page 5

TRAGIC DISCOVERY

(Press Assn.-

IN QfXJT^GE

elderly cquple found with throats cut " i i n ; , in house t. . - .. , NQ si.c m OF. STRUGG^E.

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

Gfeborrie, ^Ye^nesday-. a ghastly irage'dy, ^hich mhst have 'oCcUi-red' nearly vvfe'ek "ago, Ws discSvd'red' fey the' police ehrl.y this afternoon, when a cottage in %tSe siibtirhx was broken'mto.* Tlie h'ous'S Va's bccupied1 by an. eideV-iy 'cbuple, and' wheh rit was entefod il 'wias' fouri'd,'tha.t 'f he ' hu s fcah dj J'dseph Wilsp'hi * a 'wat'eVside Wo^ckerV" hacl. cut h's wife's thro'al with a razbr ahd' had u'sed' the razor tfo "corhihi-t "siiihide. ' " ' " '■ Wilspn had suffered from influeriza, and' wsA yisit&d. by friends last Wqdr ribsday. The follov/irig day it was foririd that the house was dbsed, and as the days went on friends became suspicjoiis " arid 'communicated thfeir fears tb the poljce, who broke op.en the door sliortly after." rioon to-day^ • In a; s.pare; rooriy opbning. " off the kitcheri, the wife,' clad in a rainqoat, was''i.yi.ng on her back 'o.n the fioor., arid Hex hushand w'as in a stooping Position with his shoulder resting. oh a chair. - There were no signs of a struggle. The tragedy evidently occurr'ed last Tkur'sday, for a letter written by Mrs. W|lsori to her mothe'r, who ' is believed to be in Christchurch, was f ourid lying bn the kitchen table, thbugh the envelope was not addressed. The 'house was spotlessly clean. The ' coupl'e were childles's, ' and had lived alone iri Gishomb for ' many yeaVs. - There is no evidenee. of a suicide pac't. ' ' • " • • ' - ■ r