THE SYDNEY TRAGEDY.
APATHETIC LETTER. AWJTDLNESS OP WAKING FROM DEATH BY TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. Sydnoy, November 16. Tho victims of tho tragedy at the Hotol Metropole were a Cowra solicitor named Listor King and his wife. Both woro well connected. They arrived at tho hotol yesterday morning. The husband loft a pathetic letter, roforring in ondcaring terms to his wife. Ho states that he gavo hor prussio acid, but as it failed to have much effect he shot hor. He then took poison, and woke up two hours afterwards, when he swallowed a glass of brandy to steady his nerves, and then wrote a letter describing tho owfulnoss of waking from death. He concludes: "My darling is in heaven, but she will not have long to wait, as I am going to shoot myself and join hor." No reason is given for tho trngody.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 7
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144THE SYDNEY TRAGEDY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 46, 18 November 1907, Page 7
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