A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
,Bv Telegraph -;Fress Association. CHRISTCRURCH, April 5. A double .tragedy occurred here late to-night. A man, named .Smithers, living in .Durham Street, wont to where a woman, named Jaokson, -was living, and first of all cut herithroat with a razor and afterwards gashed, his own. ..Jealousy is understood to be the cause of the outrage. The woman was -removed to the hospital, and at midnight her condition was so sertious that it was decided to take her-dying .depositions. The man was Jiot so -seriously injured, for he broke ..the razor in the .attack on the woman, .and did not cut his throat to ,the extent he would have done ihad .the razor been undamaged.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 6 April 1907, Page 5
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117A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8392, 6 April 1907, Page 5
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