IN DEATH NOT DIVIDED.
WIPE AND ILLICIT LOVER. (By T elegranh-Presa Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This D'av, 8.55 a.m.) ' CHICAGO, April 30. Death terminated an illicit romance when a woman was tricked, into drinking a fatal draught. After ten days' separation, Katherine Garrison, the wife of a wealthy newspaper manager, decided to return home and make a new start. Th e woman's husband called to take her home from the hotel. There he encountered her paramour, Les Hartung, who exchanged greetings with the husband. Hartung proposed that he and the woman should have “a last drink on it.” He poured the liquor from his own "flask, evidently poisoned, clinking glasses with the woman, who drank unsuspectingly. She and Hartung died "within a minute.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 May 1931, Page 5
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