FAMILY TRAGEDY.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER COMMIT
SUICIDE. Berlin*, March 22.A terrible double tragedy has caused a painful sensation in society circles in Berlin.
A well-known lady and her daughter, aged eigliten, were guests at a fashionable ball in the Hotel Kaiserhof last week, and the girl was last seen in the ballroom on the arm of a man who was a stranger to her and to her mother. At three o'clock in the morning the mother found that her daughter had disappeared, and went home to her apartment expecting to find her there. The girl, huwevei, did not return till noon on the following day, and would give no explanation, except that she had been made drunk against her will. 'The mother, in her grief tit the occurrence, exclaimed: —
" It would be better if you were drowned in the Spree instead of standing here!" The girl replied, "1 will see to that at once," and left the house immediately. Her corpse was dragged out ot the Spree thirty-six hours later. The mother blew out her brains with & revolver a few hours after the recovery of the daughter's body.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12272, 16 May 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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