TRAGEDY IN MUNICH.
DISGRx\CE TO FAMILY.
MAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY
RECOURSE TO SUICIDE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Sun. BERLIN. Dec. 28. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says Dr. Geiss, a former barrister, for his Christmas purchases at Munich tendered a 100-mark note, which the shop manager recognised as being false. Geiss said it was not false. The police were called, and found forged notes to the face value of £llO on Geiss, who declined to say how ho came into possession of them. He was arrested and taken to prison. A warder who brought breakfast to his cell on Christmas morning found Geiss dead, as the result of poisoning. A charwoman who searched Geiss' silent home found a canary in a cage, two dogs in the kitchen and a kitten in the sittingroom all dead. Ill's wife and two daughters were found unconscious in bed. The wife and the younger daughter died in hospital. Frau Geiss left a letter saj|ing she could not live after the disgrace that had fallen on the family, and intended to commit suicide. It is believed Dr. Geiss did not forge the notes. The police are trying to learn how he came into possession of tliern.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 9
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