A LOVE TRAGEDY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10508, 19 November 1912, Page 5

A LOVE TRAGEDY.

0 United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. Sydney, November 18. A love tragedy has occurred at Waverley. The body of a girl named Hilda Gowen was found in a park with two lysol bottles lying alongside her. At the same time George Yeitch, aged IS, was lying at his home in a dangerous state suffering from lysol poisoning. He informed the police that he and the young woman were sweethearts. They quarrelled and decided to poison themselves. After praying together they 7 swallowed the poison. The girl died. He crawled home. Yeitch, in his depositions, states that he drank his dose first. Then he became oblivions to the world. The next thing he remembered was finding himself in the hospital. . He had no tion of what [became of the girl. The doctor considers it was utterly impossible for anyone in Yeitch’s condition to have reached home alone. His sister says she heard two sharp rings at the doorbell. On answering [the hell she found her brother collapsed in the doorway. It was impossible for him to have rung the hell j-himself, but he would have been assisted home. The medical examination of Miss Gowen shows that she took _a big dose of the poison, but it indicates nothing that could explain the remarkable mystery surrounding the tragedy.