TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SCOTLAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1276, 12 January 1883, Page 2

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN SCOTLAND.

? ;.L,_6n Sunday the 23rd Octobsra' ter-' | rible tragedy occurred at Montrose. As' f the' leaving. |he churches, . an infuriated manwM^sefyedjushing, > -iitag the streets' i Ho made; for .the;Suspe'nßion Bridge, I 'and ascending the parapet leaped into 1 the' Esk belq\|,';a' of sixty!. feeKJ ; Boats were put off to his assistance, and ( he was rescued still clinging;to the axe. lOn being drawn aboard sthe boat he i said.he had lolled " two devils" but.had i- fiye/yet tpikill. He I lodged iff 'Pffice. / The' 1 |J incident' •■created .: great' excitement, j which increased wheii it was/learned' t that the man who was identified'as James "White, t^tcfier^had'jlactually I committed tiwo murders at.bne'o'clock." I Without atiy provocation' )ie 'struck down his wife with -the axe, killing her | instantaneously. -Immediately he ran, to the house of his mother-in-law, and ( having struck her-repeatedly with the 1 : same instrument, fieUto the Suspension Bridge to commit "suicide., The mother-in-law is sodreadfully mangled that her 1 death is momentarily, who,is : so years'of'age,' hW- teeri i desppnding state for;-some time,.and ;»< medical gentleman recently, advised-hia ■ , friends to placehimiti an-aeyluui,? but i they would not acquiesce. . Ho. took l' >pavi in the 1 American Civiliwasi for a ;timpia;'mehil»er of* the | Metropolitan Police Force. His wife ; iwaronly 38 yeais '6ld.-V She leaWs tii ] children. Her mother, was 70 yeara of