GREY LYNN TRAGEDY
WOMAN FOUND DEAD THROAT SLASHED WITH RAZOR STRANGE story was told to the ' Coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, this morning when the inquest on Mrs. Mary Wallace Murray, aged 46, of 2 Sherwood Avenue, Grey Lynn, who was found dead yesterday morning with her throat slashed by a razor, was held. The husband, who is an engineer, told the coroner that he got up 7.20 a.m. yesterday morning and took a cup of tea into the bedroom to his wife. “She drank the tea and seemed in the best of health and spoke as usual,” he said. “I went back to bed and she got up. We had had no quarrel.” He thought she had gone for a book as
she generally read in bed for an hour or so on Sunday morning, but a few minutes later he got up and found her sitting in an outhouse in the back yard with her throat cut.
His wife had consulted a doctor some time before as she was not feeling very well and she had been somewhat depressed since her father died last Christmas, he said.
A verdict of suicide, in accordance with the medical evidence, was recorded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 57, 30 May 1927, Page 1
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