CHAPTER OF TRAGEDY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7078, 16 March 1910, Page 7

CHAPTER OF TRAGEDY

DISAPPOINTED AT 70 ' AGED HUSBAND AND WIFE COMMIT SUICIDE. 1 CHAGRINED AT LOSING PRIZE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 14. Dr Benson, aged seventy-three,-and his wife, aged sixty-seven, swallowed poison while at their breakfast-table in a Philadelphia hotel, and died immediately. They were disappointed owing to their failure to win the French Academy of Medicine's £40,000 prize for a tuberculosis cure. DESPERATE CONVICTS. FATAL FIGHT AVITH WARDERS ON TjttAlN. ST. PETERSBURG, March 14. At Moghilev, North-west Russia, fourteen convicts who were travelling in a waggon attached $b a. mail train extinguished the lights anid attacked' the warders while tine train was i» motion. Three warders and eleven convicts were killed or wounded. CHILDREN'S SAD END. SUPPOSED ACCIDENT FOLLOWED BY SUICIDE. PERTH, March 15. A brother and sister named NoaJkj aged respectively eight and twelv# years, were found dead in a each with a bullet wound in the for* head. A broken pea-rifle the boy had be«* carrying was lying near. It is surmised that the boy shot hia sister accidentally, and "then took his own life in a fit of remorse. ATTEMPTED TRAIN-WREOKING. OBSTACLE PARTLY DERAILS AN ENGINE. ■■ .- / SYDNEY, March' 15. At Katoomba an attempt was made to derail a train to which the Chiot Commissioner's car was attached. Heaps of stones placed on the : line caused the engine to partly leave thoracis. The Commissioner was "not on board at the time. MR BERTRAM.ARMYTAGE'S DEATH. LONDON, March 14. Referring to tho tragic death of Ml Bertram Armytage, a member of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, who committed suicido in his bedroom at the Melbourne 'Club, Sir Ernest Shackleton, interviewed, said Mi Armytage had been a loyal and zealous and a good companion in any emor gency, a man always ready to work. SYDNEY, March 15. Professor David - pays a tribute to Mr Bertram Armytage, who, he says, was one of the most fearless, conscion--/ious, and unselfish members of th« Antarctic expedition.