FAMILY TRAGEDY.
Vienna, September I.—A railway employee named Stephan. Pakacs, living at Tisza-Keresztur, in Hungary, has poisoned himself, his wife, and all his six children in despair at having lost his post. Without saying anything to the family he mixed poison in their dinner, while stirring the pot on the fire, wrote a,nd posted a letter to the police informing them of his purpose, and then sat down to dinner as usual, and helped his family to the poisoned dish. When the police arrived yesterday they found all dead except one little girl, who was still able to speak, but died later. She said that after dinner was over her father locked the door, and then told them what he had done, and bade them prepare for death.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 29 October 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)
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