"DREAMING IN ALGIERS."
SOLDIERS TRAGIC AWAKENING
WIFE AND CHILDREN KILLED
Times and Sydney Sun Services, Algiers, July 15. A gas inspector forced his way into a house at Oran yesterday and found the -bodies of Captain Gouzo, of the Foreign Legion, his wife, and three children shot in tho same room. A note on tho tabic read: " In. a dream I saw my wife and children on the point of boing captured in Morocco. I woke, and the horrible deed was done. Pray for us."
Beside the captain was an automatic pistol, with five chambers emptied.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15663, 17 July 1914, Page 7
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