FAMILY TRAGEDY
HUSBAND DIES IN PRISON.
WIFE AND DAUGHTER DEAD. CHARWOMAN’S DISCOVERY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.10 a.m. to-day. iiEIRLIN, Dec. 28. The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent report® that Dir. Geiss, an ex-barristcr, far his Christmas purchases at Munich, tendered a one hundred mark note, which the manager recognised as false. Goi.ss ©aid that it was not false. Pile, police were called in aiid found forged notes valued -at £llO en Geiss, who declined to say how he came into possession of them, and he was arrested. A warder, when bringing breakfast to .the cell on Christinas morning, found Geiss was dead, ns the result of poisoning.
A charwoman searched the Geiss home and found a canary in the cage, two dogs in the kitchen and a kitten in the sitting-room all dead. His wife and two daughter® were found unconscious ill a bed and the' wife and the younger daughter died in hospital. Frau Geiss left a letter saying that she could not live after the disgrace that ba,cl fallen on the family and intended to commit suicide by pois on - ing.
It is believed that the doctor did not forge the note®, and the police are investigating a.s to* how lie- came into possession of them.—“ Sydney Sun” cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 29 December 1927, Page 5
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