FAMILY'S TRAGIC HISTORY.
THREE SUICIDES IN A YEAR. The sad fate of a Russian noble family is reported from Jassv, Rumania. Six years ago Count Wladimir Turkow went from Kiew to live in the neighbourhood of .Tassy with his family, which consisted of his wife, his 19-year-old son Wladinur and his 17-year-old daughter Tamara. As the family was living in very rc duced circumstances, the son travelled to Paris and obtained a position there as a shop assistant; but privation and an unhappy love affair caused him to commit suicide by shooting himself on Christmas Eve. 1930. By a strange coincidence, though unaware of the tragedy, Count Turkow died of heart failure on the same day in Jassy, and in n fit of despair at her husband's death Countess Turkow took poison and died within a few hours Left alone in the world, Tamara Turkow continued to write letters to Paris, in the belief that her brother was alive, although he did not answer .thorn. When she received news oj his death a short time ago she closed the story of the tragic family by hanging herself in her room.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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190FAMILY'S TRAGIC HISTORY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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