DRAMATIC SUICIDE OF WHOLE FAMILY FOLLOWS DISGRACE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18349, 29 December 1927, Page 1

DRAMATIC SUICIDE OF WHOLE FAMILY FOLLOWS DISGRACE.

EX-BARRISTER, ARRESTED WITH FORGED NOTES IN POSSESSION, TAKES POISON IN CELL; WIFE AND CHILD TAKE LIVES

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.—A.P.A. & •' Sydney Sun •• Cable. (Received December 2!), 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 28. TIIE Berlin correspondent of tbc “Daily Mail” reports that Dr Geiss, an ex-barrister, for Christmas purchases at Munich tendered a 100-mark note, which the manager recognised as false. Dr Geiss said that it was not false. The police were called and found forged notes to (he value of SCI 10 on Dr Geiss, who declined to say how he came into the possession of them. lie was arreslcd and lodged in gaol. A warder bringing breakfast to his cell on Christmas morning found Dr Geiss dead as a result of poisoning. A charwoman searched Dr Geiss's silent home and found a canary in its cage, two dogs in the kitchen and a kitten in the sitting room all dead. His wife and two daughters were unconscious in bed. The wife and younger daughter died in hospital. Frau Geiss left a letter saying that she could not live after the disgrace that had fallen on the family and intended to commit suicide by poisoning. It is believed that the doctor did not forge the notes. police are investigating how lie came into possession of them.