DOG TELLS OF TRAGEDY

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 September 1934, Page 10

DOG TELLS OF TRAGEDY

OWNER OVER PRECIPICE. GENEVA, August 4. Tho devotion of an Alsatian sheepdog to its mistress was the means today of discovering a fatal tragedy on the slopes of the rocky Saleve, the well-known mountain which towers above Geneva, just across the French frontier. Its owner, Miss Germaine Parry r.ged 24, a native of Geneva, left home yesterday morning with her dog to gather wild mountain flowers. She intended to stay out all day, and had taken a picnic luncheon with her. When she had not returned at dusk members of her family were not unduly alarmed, believing that she had decided to remain the night on the mountain, where there are many hotels and chalets’ About midnight, however, they heard the noise of the dog barking at the door. The girl’s mother, brother and sister immediately became alarmed when they saw the animal and there was no sign of tho young woman. They informed the police, who began an all-night search. The terribly mutilated body was brought back to Geneva at five o’clock this morning. The rubber-soled shoes she had been wearing were the direct cause of the tragedy, as they afforded no grip on the wet grass.