A SHOCKING TRAGEDY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 28 December 1910, Page 5

A SHOCKING TRAGEDY

WOMAN FATALLY INJURED. JEALOUSY THE ALLEGED REASON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Monday. A shocking tragedy was enacted at Parakai, near Helensville, on Sunday afternoon, a man named Alfred Albert Cash murdering his wife by cutting her throat and then attempting suicide. The crime seems to have resulted from jealousy. Mrs. Cash, who, with her husband, was conducting a boarding-house at the Parakai Hot Springs, returned home after having a bath, and went into her bedroom to dress for tea. Her husband followed her in the room and locked the door. Some words arose, over a letter which Cash found in the room, and in a sudden outburst of passion he pulled from his pocket a razor, with which he had previously been shaving himself, ana inflicted a deep wound on the side of his wife's neck. He then turned the razor upon himself, but the handle broke wh«n he had inflicted a flesh wound. Before he could injure himself further the door was burst open and he was restrained. Mrs. Cash died half an hour later, but Cash's wound proved to be not of a serious nature, and it is expected he will be able to attend the inquest in a week. Cash is a seafaring man, 42 years of age, and his wife was 34. Cash was trading, up and down the coast for several years, and was latterly a master in the employ of the Kaipara Steamship Com-, pany. He left the sea about a year ago owing to ill-health, and has since been treated at Cambridge for consumption. He started a boarding-house at Parakai a few weeks ago.