SINGER AND VIOLINIST.
BOTH FOUND SHOT. AMERICAN-JAPANESE TRAGEDY. SAN FRANCISCO, April 12. . The evidences of a terrible" struggle were found by die persons who searched the rooms of George Mchida, a Japanese violinist, at Oaklands last night. Two of the windows were smashed, and the furniture was overturned and broken. On the floor were the bodies -of Mchida and Anna Pierce, a pretty, young Oregon singer. . Boih had gaping bullet wounds in the head; The police believe that the girl was enticed to Mchida's robir.s, but. when she discovered 'her position she. had tried to escape. Mchida, driven. to madness, had then killed heir and himself. >,He was alive when found,' but made ho statement. Pie died a few minutes afterwards, ' A letter to her father was -found amongst the girl's-, property..:;.' It hinted that the Japanese violinst^had been over-attentive to -her ,and had threatened her with a revolver.
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Grey River Argus, 24 April 1913, Page 1
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