GERMAN TAKES HIS LIFE.
Ills FIRM IN TROUBLE. CHARGE OF ENEMY TRADING. (Received August 17, I m.i Sydney, August 16. Ludwig Hermann Bruck, a partner in the well-known medical instrument agoney, was found unconscious, and died in a hospital from morphia poisoning. He left a letter for his partner, expressing grief that he had been unintentionally (he cause of the proceedings pending in connection with a charge added: "You are quite innocent in the matter. The only way that I can see to get out of it is to end my life." The letter then gives details of the man's preparations to poison himself.
When the case against Bruck's firm was called in Court it was adjourned for a week on the ground that Bruck had died suddenly.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 8
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