DOMESTIC TRAGEDY,

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 188, 9 August 1924, Page 3 (Supplement)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY,

MURDER AND SUICIDF. YOTHMJ COTIPI«E'S END. ttfy Association.— Copyright) (Received 4.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. A double tragedy occurred in a block of fashionable flats in Jermyn Street. Mrs. Geddes rushed downstairs shrieking that her husband had shot himself. She returned to her flat, while a doctor was summoned. Almost immediately another shot was heard and both husband and wife were found mortally wounded. The husband was due to return to Bombay to-day. A letter discovered began: 'Dearest wife, we have come to the end of our resources, and as arranged between ourselves I am going to shoot myself." One theory 13 that the wife committed suicide with her husband's revolver, from grief at his loss, and another is that there was a death pact, and when the husband shot himself the wife's courage failing, she gave the alarm but recovered her nerve when she re-entered the flat, and shot herself with the same weapon. Apparently the young couple were penniless. They have been theatre-going and frequenting night clubs. No relalivcs can be discovered.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)