THE CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY.
VERDICT OF INSANITY
FPek Press Association. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, March 12. At the adjourned inquest concerning the death of James F. Trengrove, ■who committed suicide on Wednesday by cutting his throat, his wife, who is now fit to give evidence, said Trengrove had been given to intemperance, and he often ili-treated her. On V ednesday morning she had packed her clothes, intending to leave the house. Trengrove had sail she would never leave. He had gor a tomahawk from the washhmse. and raising it with both hands had sii tick her heavily on the head. She had bron stunned. Her husband bad often '.hreaUi'ed “to do for her ’ and himsel: He had been acting strangely for some tin-" The Coroner, without co-aironl returned a verdict of suicide while ' of unsound mind.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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133THE CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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