A PATHETIC TRAGEDY.
DOUBLE SUICIDE AT BRISBANE. CONSEQUENCE OF HUSBAND’S CRIME. (Received 14. 9.20 a.m.) Brisbane, Nov. 14. A pathetic double suicide is reported. When Donald McKenzie was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to rob, his wife wrote to the police that, as her husband was charged with an offence against the law, she intended to commit suicide, at the same time expressing her undying love for her husband. The next day the wife’s body was found with revolver wounds in the head and breast. McKenzie 1 was subsequently convicted and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The sentence was suspended. While the resumed inquiry into the wife’s death was in progress, McKenzie was found lying dead by his wife’s grave with a discharged revolver and his wife’s photograph alongside him. At the opening of the inquest into his wife’s death he gave evidence that his wife had proposed that they should commit suicide together.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 282, 14 November 1923, Page 5
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155A PATHETIC TRAGEDY. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 282, 14 November 1923, Page 5
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