CZECH FAMILY SUICIDES
Mother and Two Sons Leap to Death
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. A woman aged about 40 and two boys aged six and four leaped or fell from the 13th storey of the fashionable Congress Hotel, where they had regis tered from New York. The woman was fully clothed and the youngsters were in their underwear. When going up in the lift the woman had told the operator that the children were very tired and that “they were going to see their daddy soon.” The victims have been identified as Mrs Karl Langer and her sons Karl, aged six, and Jan, aged four, members of a wealthy Czechoslovakian family whose fortune disappeared in the Nazi absorption.
The woman’s husband, an ex-textile manufacturer, was found in the basement of their flat. The police locked him up, fearing that he would attempt to commit suicide.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 184, 7 August 1939, Page 8
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