HOTEL METROPOLE TRAGEDY. THE INQUEST. LITTLE TO ELUCIDATE THE MYSTERY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 125, 22 November 1907, Page 7

HOTEL METROPOLE TRAGEDY. THE INQUEST. LITTLE TO ELUCIDATE THE MYSTERY.

By Tfrlccronii.— Press Association.— tJonyrtglii SYDNEY, 21st November. ' The inquest on the bodies of the victims of the Hotel Metropole, tragedy 1 did little to elucidate the mystery. 3 The medical evidence declared that there were no traces of prussic acid. A sister of Mrs. King gave evidence - that, tho latter failing to keep an ap- » pointment, she" visited' "the hotel and .' Ws informed that Mr. and Mrs. King were alseep. "After waiting somo time she entered tho room, and discovered the dead bodies. Mrs. King was cheerful when she arranged tho- appointment. A brother of the deceased lady said Mrs. King had intended to come to . Sydney with pome friends yesterday, but her husband alleged that urgent 1 business induced her to accompany i him to the city. Mrs. King was in good health, and there was no truth in tho statement that she intended to enter a private hospital. She had a separate estate, but had encumberedit on behalf of her husband. Witness said he had received information since the tra-gedy that King -Was in finan- . rial difficulties >to the extent of about £1000.' Mr. Lister King, who evidently killed his wife and then suicided, was- a solicitor, of Cowra. The pair were young, and seemed to be much attached to each other. It was at first suggested that tho cause of the tragedy was despondency because Mrs. King was suffering from a malady Avhich would necessitate an operation.