LOVE TRAGEDY
MESSAGE ON DEAD WOMAN’S CHEST BY TILEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. -COPYRIGHT. (Rec. April 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 14. A message written on a dead woman's chest was a feature of a love tragedy discovered at an hotel, where a Brussels student, aged 19 years, was staying for a fortnight with an unknown but pretty girl. As the couple did not appear at breakfast, police forced the bedroom door, and found the youth dcaH, fully dressed, even to gloves, with a bullet wound in his chest. The woman was naked on the other side of the bed. Under a wound in the chest the words were traced in rouge: “Pray for us.” A letter on tlie mantlepieco from the youth said ho was disgusted with life, and indicated that his parents refused to sanction his marriage because he was a minor-—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19230416.2.40
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 178, 16 April 1923, Page 6
Word Count
143LOVE TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 178, 16 April 1923, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.