A SINGER'S TRAGEDY
HUSBAND WHO WANTED TO SUICIDE. LONDON, Aug. ,4. The'beautiful Russian singer, Baroness Rnyce-Ganett (Madame Vera Lavrova), who toured South’ Africa three years ago, committed suicide by leaping from the roof of a fashionable ljotel at Miami, Florida. Her husband, Baron Michael Eoyce-Garrett, who is believed to have banged himself from a tree after the death of his wife, was found alive by the. police. They arrested him on a charge of being a partner in a suicide pact. The Baron explained, says a British United Press message, that he failed in the attempt to hang himself because his wooden leg kept hint from climbing tho tree, lie said ho had lost his property, estimated to be worth i 11,000,000, in the Russian revolution and was wounded in the war. Poverty stricken, he made an agreement with his wife seven months ago that they should both commit suicide. She had nbt kept the agreement .and in the meantime thoy had earned a little money by singing iu public. , .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 10
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170A SINGER'S TRAGEDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17153, 1 October 1926, Page 10
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