FRENCH COUPLE'S SUICIDE.
INQUEST IN LONDON. LONDON. March 17. An inquest was held yesterday concerning the deaths of the French engineer, Guiard. and his wife, in a London fiat on March 12. A verdict was returned of suicide while of unsound mind, the husband by self inflicted wounds and the wife by gas poisoning. The evidence showed that both had died before they were burnt. M. I.* Roy, a mechanical engineer, stated that lie had worked with Guiard on the latter's new invention, of which he knew the secret. He believed its eventual success was assured. — (Reuter.) The man was demented over an invention —a valveless two-cylinder motor engine he had spent many years over. He locked his wife and himself in a room, drenched it with benzine, and fired it. after having destroyed everything con nected with the invention. He wrote on a motor car in his garasre: "In memory of what you have done for us, you hypocrites." Another message said.- "The English are not as smart as they think. What devils they are. Adieu. - '
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 65, 18 March 1925, Page 5
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177FRENCH COUPLE'S SUICIDE. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 65, 18 March 1925, Page 5
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