THE METROPOLE TRAGEDY

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13449, 22 November 1907, Page 5

THE METROPOLE TRAGEDY

inquest on the fiotj.ms. 'WRAPPED IN .MYSTERY. Press Association-By "ieiegraph-Copyriglit Received 10.12 ■.'p.m., ,Nov. 21s't. • SYDNEY, Nov.. 21. . The inquest .on the: bodies- of the victims of the Hotel Moilropole. tragedy, did little to elucidate the mystery. The medical evu|«iice showed' that -theape were iuv traces <>i prussie. acid biit as thfe ■was a volatile poison thei odor might have gone. <■■■:,,. ■- . , ~:.■ , . A skster of Mis King gav-e evidence that, the latter failing to Iceftp an appoititinant, witness ■•• visited. HtMcl .Metro* pole, and a\as mfoim-ed that Air ,ind Mis King were asltiep. After waiting, for m time she entered the room npd -discovered the dead bodies. Mrs King . M"a»s cheerful when she. arranged tl«j appointment'. . A brother of the "deceased WOjmrn. snidl that M i\s King .intended. -to come ■. toSydney with some fiieoids butt the husband . alleged- urgent, business .and induced .hfrr to-.-, accompany hinl to the. City. Mis King wa,s in good he.llth. lllieiv was no tuitb in the that ohn intended to enteir a private honjpital. She had had a separate estate-. ■by® ' had >«n* cumbered it- on behalf • of her .husband, fitness .-had- • received" a^fornwi-tioiii> rsincft the tragedy thjit; King was- in financial difficultii.s to the,extent of about £loooj