A MYSTERIOUS CASE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5

A MYSTERIOUS CASE

(By Tehgrapn—rress Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. An air of mystery still surrounds tho circumstances of the death of Edward Marshall (known as Ed Caton), and Mary Anne Norman, whose bodies were found in a j'oom in No. 18, Walter Street on Monday evening last. Dr A. McArthur, coroner, opened an inquiry into the matter to-day. Senior-Sergeant Rutledge conducted the proceedings on- behalf of the police. Last Saturday afternoon h appeared that Marshall anrl Nornn l ' shifted into the house. Tho woman was married, but had separated fiou. her husband, who had been away for al)ou J ; four years. She had been living Avith Marshall, who was a seaman, practically since tho time her husband left I"".

William Walter Crump, son-in-la .v of Mr;: Norman, visited the house about half-past 8 o'clock last Monday evening, and getting 110 response to his knocks, 110 entered by a side door. Tho furniture ho found had not- been unpacked. Going into a bedroom he saw the body of a man lying on the floor. He reported the occurrence to Sergeant McCrorie, who with Crump, went to the house and discovered tho dead body of the woman lying on a bed. Medical evidence failed to show the cause of death, and the inquest was adjourned to allow of an analysis of tho contents of the stomach.