DOUBLE TRAGEDY
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(AUSTRALIAN - SEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 14th April. 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 nineteen, was staying for a fortnight with an unknown pretty girl. As the couple did not appear at breakfast, the police forfced the bedroom door and found the youth' dead, fully dressed, even to gloves, with a bullet wound in the chest. The woman was naked on the other side of the bed. Under the wound in the chest the words were traced in rouge: "Pray for us." The youth's letter on the mantelpiece said that he was disgusted with life, and indicated that his parents refused to sanction hia marriage because he wag .a minor,.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 7
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133DOUBLE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 7
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