TRAGIC LOVE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7

TRAGIC LOVE

THOUGHT WIFE WAS DEAD MAN'S SUICIDE LONDON, April 1. Racked by grief in the belief that his wife bad been killed in a motor accident, Frederick Butler, manager of a Cork butcher's shop, shot himself dead with a revolver. The irony of the tragedy lies in the fact that Mrs. Butler had merely been stunned, and she soon revived after treatment by a policeman. A policeman patrolling the Northroad, near Newark, at midnight, saw a niokir car in a. ditch with its lights blazing, while two men, ono of wliom was Butler, were searching for Butler's wife, who they believed was under the motor car. Butler was feverishly running from side to side, shouting, "Reno, Rene, where are you?" The policeman joined in the search, and climbing a hedge into a cornfield, found Butler's wife, dazed. lie was restoring her to consciousness, when he heard two reports, which ho believed at the time were tyrebursts. Later he assisted Mrs. Butler to the roadway, only to find that Butler had committed suicide with a revolver, fearing that his wife was dead. By a remarkable coincidence, another butcher, also named Butler, was found dead on the roadside in .Surrey beside a car, with the back of his head blown awav with a humane killer.