AN INVENTOR’S DEATH.
SUICIDES' WHEN IN SIGHT OF SUCCESS. (Received 7.5 p.m.) -LONDON, March 16.—At the inquest on the Guiards a verdict was returned of suicide while of an unsound mind, the husband by self-in-flicted wounds and. the wife by gas poisoning. The evidence showed that both died before they were burnt. Le Roy, a mechanical engineer, gave evidence that he worked with Guiard on his new invention of which he knew .the secret and believed that eventual success was assured..—(A. and N.Z.) (Believing that an invention, on which he had been working for five years, had failed, Guiard, a French mechanic, locked himself and his wife in their house and set fire to it.)
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Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1925, Page 5
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115AN INVENTOR’S DEATH. Wairarapa Age, 18 March 1925, Page 5
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