A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1921, Page 5

A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

HUSBAND AND WIFE DIE. MURDER AND SUICIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. About twenty-five minutes past five this evening some little children were climbing a big elm tree in front of the grounds of a large empty house in Abel Smith Street, and when one of them glanced towards the side of the house a horrible sight met his gaze, and he ran away screaming, followed by the others. The children .told by-standers, the alarm was quickly given, and the police were on the spot. Lying almost side by side on the lawn were a young man and a young woman, both dead. The woman, who was still warm, was lying on her right side, with her body stretched out, but not quite stiff. The head was bent to the grass, and there was a small pool of blood under the neck. The man was lying on his back, and there were a few spots of blood on his face. Near the body was a hatchet, such as is used by firemen, stained with blood. Alongside the body was a bottle, supposed to contain poison.

The unfortunate woman was identified as Jean Foreman, formerly Bews, employed as a clerk in an advertising agency, and the man was Edward Alfred Foreman, a young but dangerous criminal, who was released from gaol a year ago after serving a sentence of several years for jewel robberies. While he was in prison his first wife divorced, him, and after his release he married his present wife —an attractive girl who was always fond of Foreman. For some time Foreman had been working on the wharf. He was said to be very jealous of the woman lately, and had several quarrels, while the girl, who said he had ill-treated her, was about to sue for a separation order. It is presumed Foreman met his wife by appointment, inticed her to the lawn of the unoccupied residence, killed her with a weapon, and then took poison,