UNDIVIDED IN DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 162, 30 June 1908, Page 2

UNDIVIDED IN DEATH.

HUSBAND AND WIFE DIE WITHIN A FEW MINUTES By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auokland, Last Night. A peculiarly distressing case of two sudden deaths in the one household occurred iit Parnell this morning, when bot'li Mr. and Mrs, Geo. Harding, of Manukau road, an elderly married couple, passed away within a few minutes of each other. Mr. Harding had for eOnie years past been an invalid and Mrs. Harding, in pursuance of her usual custom, went to her husband's room at 10.15 a.m. to-day to assist him to dress. Whilst ill the room, she was seized with a heart attack, and fell to the iloGr. llie noise attracted the attention of the other inmates of llie house, who rushed in and picked Mrs. Harding up. .She expired, however, in their arms. Another shock awaited the others, who found that Mr. Harding, whose health had been very precarious through' paralysis, was already dead, it is presumed from the shock of his wife's death. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harding were between 00 and 70 years of age, and had resided in inrnell for some years, being wellknown and highly esteemed in 'the district.