MAN AND WIFE DEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 13

MAN AND WIFE DEAD

NEIGHBOUR’S DISCOVERY VICTIMS IN NIGHT ATTIRE GUN SECURED YESTERDAY The last person who saw Petewilliam Clos alive before the tragic discovery of the bodies of he and his wife was a neighbour living opposite. She saw him walking home to 12 Raymond Street carrying a brown paper parcel under- his arm. She sa*d that it was either a gun or a rifle. The gun appeared to be quite new. Dr. O. F. Lamb, who was called by the police, is ot opinion that the tra gedy occurred early this morning. The milkman, Mr. Burgess, delivered the milk to Clos’s house at midnight. Everything seemed in order when he called last night, and the bark door was closed as usual. There were no lights in the house to-day when the tragedy was discovered, and it is believed that early this morning Clos must have turned out the lights after shooting his wife and opened the bark door so that he had sufficient light, to take his own life. The blinds in the house were all drawn. On the kitchen table, not far from where Clos was lving was a small whisky flask almost empty. Also on the table was Ss Sd in small change, which had been left for the baker. The sum of £ 3 Ss lOd was found in the house altogether. Evidently tile Clos house hold was not in want. The home was nicely furnished and there were a piano and a gramophone in the living room. Clos was a labourer who worked in the Point Chevalier district. He was a returned soldier, having served with the Ist Battalion of the Auckland Infantry Regiment in the war. He was discharged in October. 1917. Clos was born in London and was at one time an amateur boxer. Clos and bis w*ife had been living at 12 Raymond Street for about l” months. PREVIOUSLY MARRIED Mrs. Clos had been married twice. Previously she was Mrs. Barnett. There were three children by the first two daughters and a son. ' One daughter is living at Whangarei. She recently visited her mother. Another daughter, still single, is living in Auckland, and the son, a boy of 16 or 17, lives with his grandmother, also in Auckland. There may have been some discord in the family, as Mrs. Clos’s children by her first husband did not live at home. The unmarried daughter left about a month ago and the boy had been away for some years. Residents in the vicinity of the tragedy have difficulty in accounting for it. Clos was very little known by the neighbours, and Mrs. Clos was believed to suffer from poor health, though she was noticeably of a blight disposition. Tlje two, however, lived a very reserved life. They did not mix very much with residents of Raymond Street, except their nearest neighbours, Mr. and Mrs. Croad and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Learning.