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TRAGEDY AT STRAHAN.
DEAD BODY OF WOMAN FOUND.
ARREST OF HUSBAND.
ZEEHAN, March 26.
A woman named Violet Mabel Darling
was found dead with her throat cut in
a shelter shed on the road between the
Strahan Hospital and Regatta Point
railway station this evening, about 7
o'clock, and her husband George Henry
Dalling, has been arrested in connection
therewith, while another man who was
in his company has been detained by
the police.
Tho dead woman and her husband,
aged aged respectively 26 and 35 years, ar-
rived some weeks back at Mount Lyell
from Victoria but are said to have been
not Iong out from England. The hus-
band got into trouble almost immediate-
ly and was sentenced to a month's im-
prisonment for larceny at Lyell. He
served this sentence at Strahan, whither
his wife also went, and she was arrested
there and sentenced to a month in gaol
on a charge of having no lawful visible
means of support. Her husband was
released on March 11, and his wife on
the 12th. Since then they had been
to Queenstown and are said to
have walked thence to Strahan, another
man accompanying them. On arrival
thev bid some drink.
What subsequently happened is uncer-
tain, but about 7 o'clock a boy, who was
going along the road saw the body of
a woman lying in the shelter-shed, and
informed the assistant stationmaster
(Mr. Batchelor) at Regatta Point, who,
in turn, notified the police
An investigation by Constable Thomp-
son resulted in the arrest of Darling,
and the detention of the other man,
Sub-Inspecter Lonergan is to make fur-
ther inquiries to-morrow, when an in-
quest will be formally opened.
The deceased woman is said to have
been well educated, and at one time an
actress, while Darling is reported to
have been in the United States navy.
A knife has been found some distance
from the shed.
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