LUCERNE TRAGEDY
WIFE DIES FROM FOOD POISONING. HUSBAND COMMITS SUICIDE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. GENEVA, October 6. A young married couplo named Wallace died at Lucerne under tragic circumstances. Mrs Wallace, whose age was twenty-three, complained that she waa unwell. Her husband hurried her to the best hotel doctor, who diagnosed her case as one of food poisoning. The wife died in a few hours in terrible agony. Her husband threw himself upon her body in a paroxysm of grief. Latex, when ho was left*alone, he got a revolver from his luggage, and shot himself. It is understood that Wallace came from New Zealand, His wife was an English girl.—A and N.Z. Gable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18094, 9 October 1922, Page 4
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