TRAGIC SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3839, 23 May 1913, Page 5

TRAGIC SUICIDE AT AUCKLAND.

HUSBAND’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY.

r PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM J AUCKLAND. Mav 22. A shocking’discovery awaited a carpenter named Henry Alexander Fay, when returning from work this evening to his home in Gordon _ Road, IvTorningside. He found his wife and 18-months-olcl boy dead as the result of gas poisoning. The indications pointed to suicide on the part- of the mother. , A statement made to the police by Fav was to the effect that he left home at 7.15 &.m. to proceed to work. His wife, -Charlotte, aged 2-1 years, was in bod with the child. Both wore in good health and apparently nothing was wrong with Mrs Fay. On his return at 4.45 p.m. Fay found the kitchen door closed. He opened it and went in, finding his wife lying on her left side on tho floor with the baby on her left arm, and a blanket was spread over the mother and child who were lying dose to the stove with their heads beneath a- gas ring, from which the gas was escaping. The house was full of gas. Dr. Dudley was .sent for, but could only pronounce tlrat tho lives of both Were extinct, death having taken in his opinion, six hours previously. Tho husband of the deceased' woman could ascribe no reason for tho tragedy.