BRUNNER TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 8

BRUNNER TRAGEDY

STILL A MYSTERY

THE LATEST DETAILS,

(United Press Association.—Copyright^ (Beceived sth November, 2.30 p.m.), LONDON, 4th November. Exhaustive investigations have faiUi to clear up the mystery of the-KoeM* Brunner tragedy. The couple had a»» ranged to Bpend the evening in"ttp West End, for which a chauffeur,.W# ordered. Boscoe Brunner journeyed m the direction of Boehampton kt o'clock in response to his wife's Bif gent telephone call. The conductor W$ the bus in which he travelled says' bff noticed Mr. Boscoe Brunner 'a agitate^ condition. . The couple went upstairs to the writing* room where a light meal was serve?* They engaged in a long conversation though three servants in the doWnstawil quarters did not hear any shots. ';..; When a maid knocked at the door en the chauffeur's request Mr. rJJoncog Brunner said: "You can't come, in.** At 10 o'clock the chauffeur insisted that his master should be informed .thai he was waiting. The cook went _ Uj£ stairs, but receiving no reply to aknocfc entered the room and found the bodies. that of Mrs. Brunner being fully.'flrea^ ed and wearing a hat. , t The wife is described as a woman (4 a curious temperament. She won «omi recognition as the authoress oi'fotSf novels, which were published. She. was a great social worker and prominent iil' society. ,' T l The parties had been married twenty eight years. Becently they purcfiasejL a three-storied mansion of forty Mr'qoma at a cost of £20,000. Many thougandii of pounds were spent on exclusive decorations, and only yesterday the wife selected large quantities of wallpapers. She attended the house almost daily, so great was her personal interest'ln i£; The Prince of Lichtenstein i« their "soa-i in-law, and the wedding a fcwinonths* ago was one of the social events-jof tho season. The Princo and Princess arji' at present on the Continent, bat* are now hastening to England. "to% „..'.