ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9991, 10 March 1910, Page 5

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

A WRETCHED AFFAIR. I _ i By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. Jas. Frederick Trengrove, a casual labourer, residing in Queen Street, Sydenham, committed suicide at his house this morning, by cutting his throat with a razor, after he had made an attempt to murder his wife with a tomahawk. Trengrove was casually employed on the railway, and for some time past he had not ived at all happily with his wife. He had been on a drinking bout, and went home drunk on Saturday night, and created a disturbance. Yesterday Mrs Trengrove went to the Court and instituted proceedings for a summary separation order, and his morning it is stated that another quarrel ensued. She informed her husband of her intention to apply for an order, whereupon he became violent, . and picked up a small tomahawk and struck her a blow with the edge on the back of the head. She was knocked down, hut a little later recovered sufficiently to run out on the street, where she began screaming "Murder!" The police were informd, and went to the house. A doctor, who had been telephoned for, arrived just a few moments after the police officials. Trergrove was alive then, bat died shortly after. Mrs Trengrove in the meantime was attended to by neighbours, and removed to an adjacent house. Her condition, as far as can be gathered, is not thought to be serious. An inquest was opened to-day, and the evidence of the police taken, and adjourned I till Mrs Trengrove is well enough to i give evidence.