A CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10161, 10 February 1911, Page 5

A CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY.

WOMAN'S MYSTERIOUS DEATH. ■ | By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night, [ The victim of Tuesday night or Wednesday morning's tragedy in j Cashel Street has been identified as the .divorced wife of a local resident, who, after obtaining a decree against her husband, resumed her maiden name of Ethel Bradley. She comes of an old and .highly respected Lyttelton family. So far as can be ascertained, the last person who saw her alive was her nej>hew7"who saw liar in Cashel Street shortly be•fore eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, when she cheerfully acknowledged his good-night. The police advance the theory that the woman took poison herself, and that some other person with her, in all probability a male, frightened and excited at the deed, had conveyed her to the spot where she was found. The police state that the body was ceVtainly not in the right-of-way at 2 a.m., and that it musif have been placed there, probably after life was extinct, at 4 a.m. The girl's relatives, however, firmly believe that she was murdered. A medical examination of the body disclosed the fact that she was pregnant. The inquest opens to-morrow morning. LATER. Regarding the Cashel Street tragedy, it is understood that the result of the analysis of the stomach of the victim will not he ready, for the inquest to-morrow, and that so far the analyst has. not found any traces of poison. ' This, however, is not final, as it is a tedious process that lias to be followed before such trace's are detected.