UNHAPPY COUPLE.
WIFE’S OVERDOSE OF POISON. LIFE SAVED BY DOCTORS. Received January 11, 9.15 a.m. BERLIN, Jan. 9. Tilla Durieux, tho actress, wife of Paul Cassierer, took an overdose of poison, but tho doctors saved her life.—a. and N.Z. cable and Reuter. Paul Cassierer, a well-known art dealer and publisher, c’ommitted suicido in Berlin following unhappy domestic relations with his wife, Tilla Durieux, who lias achieved an unchallenged position at the head of tho profession as an impersonator of volcanio temperaments, including the lato Oscar Wilde's characters. A dissolution suit was lodged after 19 years of married life. Tho parties mot in the presence of lawyers to arrange financial matters, after which Cassierer wont to an adjoining room, fired a revolver at liis heart and died in a few hours.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 35, 11 January 1926, Page 7
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