DRAMATIC TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 5

DRAMATIC TRAGEDY

DIVORCE^ MARRIAGE, MURDER. . (By Telegraph.— Press Association.- Copy riftht.) SYDNEY, 6th March. Details have come to hand of a double tragedy on the 6th of February at Honolulu. Some two years ago a Sydney resident obtained a divorce from his wife, who was well known in fashionable circles. Shortly after, the wife of another resident was granted a divorce on the ground of her husband's misconduct with the divorced wife mentioned above. In the meantime, the two divorcees departed for San Francisco in company, A year later, the lady transferred her affections to another gentleman, with whom she sailed for Sydney. The couple were married shortly before reaching Honolulu, where they stayed to spend their honeymoon. Mr, A. Wagner, the mah who had been deserted in America, appeared on the scene, and shot and mortally wounded his 'deserter, then known as Mrs. Stuart. He then turned the weapon on himself, with fatal effect.