DOUBLE TRAGEDY

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18148, 11 August 1924, Page 10

DOUBLE TRAGEDY

. g A CURIOUS AFFAIR. PROBABLY A DEATH PACT. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTEIGHT) (austbauan and -n.z. cablb associatioh.) (Received August 10th, 5.5 p.m.) : LONDON, August 9. ; rA curious - double, tfagedy "<>ecurred. in. a bflotfk fas'nionaWe flats' in Jermyiv street. Mrs Geddes rrushed' downstairs' shrieking that her husband' had shot him's6lf, 'but returned. to her flat while a. doctor being summoned. Almost ■ immediately ainother shot' was heard,' and both husband, and wife weiu.found ' mortally wounded. The huslxwid was Captain T. J. R. Geddes, who wa,s Home on leave from the Indian Army. The couple had been married only nine months and he was due to return to Bombay to-day. A letter discovered began: "Dearest wife, we have to the end of aur resources, and, as arranged 'fretween ourselves, I ain going to shoot myself." One theory is that the wife committed suicide with her husband's revolver from grief at her loss, while the other is that .there was a death pact, and when the husband shot himself the wife's courage failed. and , she gave the alarm, but recovered her nerve when, she re-entered tie fla-t-and shot'herself with the same weapon. Apparently the young couple- were penniless. They bad been theatre-going and frequenting night dubs. No relatives are'discoverable.