TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
MELANCHOLIC MILLIONAIRE’S CRIME. PARIS, December 8. William 11. Payne, sixty, reputedly an American millionaire, occupying, with a paralysed wife, a luxurious flat in Champs d’Elysees. was chocking accounts with his wife housekeeper,l Adrienne Henry, -when a dispute arose. Payne rushed to a drawer, seized a revolver, and slightly wounded Henry, who ran screaming to the kitchen. Payne followed, firing four shots, and killing her. He returned to the sitting room fatally shot his wife, and locked himself in a bedroom and committed suicide with Hie revolver. ' The Paynes reecnrry made a world tour, and the husband returned suffering from melancholia.
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Grey River Argus, 10 December 1926, Page 5
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102TRIPLE TRAGEDY. Grey River Argus, 10 December 1926, Page 5
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