PATHETIC DEATHS OF OLD COUPLE
could not live alone (Special to THE HUN.) WANGANUI, To-day. Wiu ere * s a Pathetic touch in the Max* tragedy. Yesterday the old Richard Payton, 83 years of age, iis l ° Und drowned in the lagoon near 0,!°2f e; to ~ da y his wife died. -jj, 1 "JQiriday evening Payton refused » o ui °* neighbours and said he *ouih ! if necessary and said he fthin# 8 /* up his wife himself. »i ends ca lled in the morning they Whi k 8 ’ Ra yton seriously ill, and A J? band nowhere to be found. K rCh Was imade and the old found in a dam about alt i« ot a mile from the cottage, his Bpr ? Bum ed that Mr. Payton saw * n a state of coma and asshe was dead, and drowned her; 1 as he could not live without lady gradually grew worse burilH morning. Both will Ve e< rL this afternoon in the same 'iv’e* *“ ey have no family nor relahi New Zealand. had been superannu:*pjß om the railways for several
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 3
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177PATHETIC DEATHS OF OLD COUPLE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 3
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