A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 26, 7 March 1914, Page 7

A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

SORDID DETAILS.

By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. SYDNEY, March 6. Details of a double tragedy on February 6, at Honolulu, have been received. Some two years ago a Sydney resident obtained a divorce from his wife, well-known in fashionable circles, on the ground of adultery. Shortly after the wife of another resident was granted a divorce on the ground of her husband's misconduct with the divorced wife mentioned above. In the meantime the two divorcees left for San Francisco in company. A year later the lady transferred her affections to another gentleman. They sailed for Sydney, and were married shortly before reaching Honolulu, where they stayed to spend tlie honeymoon. The man Avho had been deserted in America appeared on the scene ami shot and mortally wounded the woman, who was then known as Mrs Stuart, and then turned the weapon on himself with fatal effect.