MURDER AT NEW LYNN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 297, 7 March 1928, Page 13

MURDER AT NEW LYNN

WIDOW SLAIN

Daughter’s Wedding Day

BROTHER-IN-LAW ARRESTED

ON her daughter’s wedding day, Mrs. E. Norgrove, aged about 40, widow, of Cardwell Street, was murdered at New Lynn to-day. The tragedy occurred at noon. Her brother-in-law, George Norgrove, who came out from Auckland to call upon Mrs. Norgrove this morning, has been arrested by the police, and is in custody.

AT ISS MAVIS NORGROVE, aged IS, the daughter of the murdered woman, was to have been married this afternoon at the office of the Registrar of Marriages in Auckland, to Mr. Robert George Firth, of Hutchison Avenue, New Lynn. George Norgrove, now in custody, is said to have been a frequent visitor to his sister-in-law’s home at New Lynn. The deed was committed with a flatiron.

.Mrs. Norgrove lived in a plain little house in Caldwell Street, New Lynn. She was a widow, her husband having died three years ago last month. Mrs. Norgrove’s two children, David, aged about 11 or 12, and Mavis, who was to have been married to-day, lived with her.

Mr. Raymond C. Dormer, of Craigbank Avenue, New Lynn, said that after her marriage to-day Miss Norgrove and her husband would live with him.

Mrs. Norgrove was on the best of terms with her family. She kept her home by doing domestic duties, and in this way maintained her two children. There were three other children, hut these were placed in a home at Manurewa some time ago.

Detective-Sergeant Kelly is handling the -operations on behalf of the police.