FAMILY WIPED OUT

Southland Times, Issue 22012, 11 May 1933, Page 8

FAMILY WIPED OUT

EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY. SEQUEL TO MAIL FRAUDS. New York, April 29. An extraordinary tragedy, involving murder and suicide and the wiping out of a family of four, has come to light, following the bursting of a “high finance” bubble. During several years, William Foshay and his associates engaged in wild flotations in Minnesota, and erected the famous Foshay Tower in the city of St. Paul, to mark the success of heir fly-by-night enterprises. A year ago, the whole cardboard financial structure failed for many millions of dollars, and thousands of people lost their investments.. Foshay and his associates were convicted of mail frauds, but only after a long and, for a time, abortive trial. Mrs Genevieve Clark, a handsome brunette, and formerly secretary to Foshay, got herself selected for the jury, failing, of course, to reveal her former employment with the, Foshay enterprises, and her husband’s connection with the subsidiary business. Eleven jurors voted for a conviction, but Mrs Clark held out for acquittal, and, after a week’s sensational disagreement, the jury was discharged. The woman’s trus position was soon discovered, and she was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for contempt of court, which allowed her .freedom for three days in which to make family arrangements to start her sentence. She immediately disappeared, and to-day her body, with those of her husband and two children, was found inside a closed motor car, with a hose attached to the exhaust. Mrs Clark was lying near the seat, with her arms around her two boys. All had died without pain. ' *