TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SCOTLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1047, 23 December 1882, Page 3

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SCOTLAND.

On Sunday, tho 23rd October, a terrible tragedy occurred at Montrose. As the people were leaving the church an infuriated man was observed rushing along the street brandishing an axe. He made for the Suspension Bridge, and ascending the parapet, leaped into the Esk below, a height of sixty feet. Boats were put oft to his assistance, and he was'rescued, still clinging to the axe. On being drawn aboard the boat lie said he had killed 'two devils,' but had yet five to kill, lie was immediately lodged in the Police Office. The incident created excitement, which increased when it was learned, that tl e man, who was identified as James White, a butcher, had actually committed two murders at 1 o'clock, Without any provocation he struck down his wife with the aj;e, killing her instantaneously, Immediately ho ran to the house of his mother-in-law, and having struck l;er repeatedly with the same instrument, Hftd to the Suspension Bridge to commit suicide. The mother-in-law is so dreadfully mangled that her ck'uth is momentarily oxpected. White, who is fifty years of age, has been in a ing state for some tjme, and, a medical gentiermin, recency advised his Men da to pjape liitn in an asylum, but they would not acquiesce, lie took part in tha American Civil War, and was for a time a member of the Metropolitan Police Force* His wife, was eJnly 38 years old, She leaves sis children, Her mother was 70 years of age.