SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 17 December 1912, Page 5

SHOCKING TRAGEDY.

SENSATION AT MARTON, MAN AND GIRL FOUND DEAD. SEQUEL TO A LONE AFFAIR. {By TeieQTaph —rreu a.uoctatvm.j PALMERSTON N., Last Night. Word has been., received of a double tragedy at Marton Junction to-day. A horseman, riding along the road in the vk'inity of the Marton Junction! station was nearly thrown, through his horse shying at some object lying by the roadside. He rode up to see what tho object was, and found it to bo tho body of a girl. He immediately reported tho matter to the police. Another body, that of a man, was lying near to tho girl. •The man is reported to bo H. J. Urquart, of Wellington, and the girl Lorna Gordon, of Marton. The information, so far obtained, is to tho effect that Urquart, who is a carpenter of Wellington, was recently engaged at Marton as clerk of works on a residence undergoi.n-g erection. While there he became acquainted with Miss Gordon, who w;ts twenty or twenty-one years of age. Severn! letters had passed between them. The relatives of the girl objected to the intimacy between the two. Urquart had gone back to Wellington, and: a day or two ago wrote to Miss Cordon from there, telling her that a friend of his would reach Marton by the Main Trunk train today, and a'ddri." her to exchange letters that had passed between them with him. The girl apparently had oome in from Fern Flats, where she was residing with relatives, and. had pone to th" train to keep the aonointmont. "Ft was Urquart himself who brought th" letters. Thev went a f<nv chains away from the station, and there the trnn-edy had be"'! cfiinndtted bv flic roadside. The <rirL wh«n found was not nuite df.n'l. hv*- expired soon after asslc.+nnpf* arrived. i„„,.. pfi-.n.. +.],„ +,.„:„ lynl lofh. Tim ivi'vT --or, twice in the arm o-i in tho v : ,rl,t «id<\ Tim '-"r?Ti ir« fimt throusrh th" i,„.,,.+ .pH v .„,. ,i„„a \ ,-nlvr... M-n<. 1,-i,m- .mnv. '<••,„ a,.„„.„.i„ i,„ f . rj «rroat ser-