THE KAIAPOI TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 May 1916, Page 8

THE KAIAPOI TRAGEDY.

i, ft- <m r \ * THE INQUEST CONCLUDED. NO NEW EVIDENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. • Christchurdi, Last Night. The adjourned enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the murder of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Holland, at Kaiapoi, on May 11, was continued to-day. Nathan L. Thompson, Jnr., a fisherman at Kaiapoi, said he went past Holland's house at 10 p.m. on May 11th. He heard two sounds from the house. The sounds were peculiar, something like a sneeze. He stopped at Holland's front gate and heard a sound as~'if a chair had been moved in the house. There was a light inside the window facing the north. He stood at the gate for a moment. A dog barked in Holland's place. He saw no person at all and went on to his boat. Returning about five on May 12th, he came past Holland's house again and up Raven Street. The light was still burning in the same window and a dog barked again at witness. Considerable evidence was given, but no new facta were adduced. The Coroner said it was one of those extraordinary cases-that cropped up eccasionally. Apparently there was no motive for the crime, and at present no suspicions were directed ■ towards any person. He could only return an open verdict that each deceased died at Kaiapoi on May 11th, 1010, of shock from hemorrhage of the brain, as a result of injuries inflicted upon them by some person or persons to the Coroner unknown.