THEATRE BOX DRAMA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 22 October 1919, Page 2

THEATRE BOX DRAMA.

' Tragedy of such a nature as one might expect to read about in the pages of" sensational novel [was discovered in real life in Scotland.

Its setting was a private box in King’s Theatre, Greenock, where a revue, entitled “Moonstruck,” by Fiuea Carno, was being performed. Cleaners working in tiro theatre in the morning fouudJn the box the dead body of Jenny Creighton, an orchestra stall attendant. Near her was David Gilchrist, a demobilised soldier, unconscious, with ;a bullet wound in his head. He is now in the infirmary in a serious condition. Beside the couple, who were both covered by a large white sheet, used in the boxes when the theatre closes, were an empty bottle which had contained laudanum, ,a cup, *and a small nickel-plated revolver, containing an empty cartridge. “There was also a “farewell” message written on the back of a card stating that the couple were troubled, and that they were “going to a betterland. ’ ’

The pair, it is said, had been “keeping company,” and were greatly attached to one another. Gilchrist was in the habit of waiting until the close of the performance to see his sweetheart home. He had served abroad in tl.e Army, and wore three wound stripes. The dead girl was fully dressed even to her gloves, and apparently the couple had been Ju the theatre all night.