SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 14 November 1914, Page 4

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

EVIDENCES OK IK)UBLE SUICIDE. HUHJAND'S GHASTLY FIND. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. .Napier, Last Night. A shocking tragedy occurred at Olive this afternoon. The bodies of a marlied woman, Georgina Anthony, wife of Alfred Anthony, a woolclasscr, and n nJan named Norman Kichards, employed at Pakipaki freezing works, were found lying on a bed in Anthony's house, each wiih the arteries of an arm severed at tho elbow.

Mrs Anthony was to have left by the mail train on a visit to her mother, who lives at Castlecliff, Wanganui, and her husband bade an affectionate good-bye at seven o'clock this morning before going to work. On returning at six o'clock in the evening, he saw her hat on a table,, and looked in the rooms for her, finding her and Richards as stated. Both bodies were still warm. A razor was lying on the table by the bedside. There were no signs of a struggle. The women left a note, but the contents will not be disclosed until the inquest iu the morning.