DOUBLE MURDERER'S END.
HE COMMITS SUICIDE. Mv William Barthclin. a member of a> no.blfl family in Denmark, who has been sought by the police of Chicago for the murder of his mother and sweetheart, has been found dead at Flaxfield, low*, with a pistol wound- in his head. H» i«ffc a -letter confessing the murders. Vvut Sid not- reveal his motive. The> police say that being -unaible to borrow any money in order to marry Miss Minnie Mitchell, he strangled his mother, who was well-to-do. His sweetheart- thereupon refuel to marry him. . He lest all his ready money gambling at the races, and fearing that his sweetheart would betray him he shot her and- fled. The condition of his body showed that he had suffered from lark of food.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7545, 30 October 1902, Page 2
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