DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 October 1922, Page 5

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

DEATH OF YOUNG COUPLE. ! !

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—IOPyRISHT GENEVA, Oct. 5. A young married couple named Wallace, whose relatives live at Auckland, t died at Lucerne under tragic circumstances. The wife' died as a result of poisoned food, whereupon the husband, in a fit of mania, fired a revolver shot into his dead wife's head and then shot himself dead.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn GENEVA, Oct. 7. The Wallaces were recently married. Mrs. Wallace, who was 23 years of age, complained that she was unwell, and her husband hurried her to the best hotel, where a doctor diagnosed the case as one of food poisoning. The wife died in a few hours an terrible agony. The husband threw'himself upon the body in a paroxysm or grief, a,nd later, when left alone, he got a revolver from his luggage and shot himself. It is understood Wallace came from New Zealand, but his wife was an English girl.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.