THE LAST STRAW.
ART DEALER'S TRAGIC END. (Times —Sydney Sun Special Cables,) NEW YORK, March 8. Heron Blokesbiee, art dealer, 6hot himself in the temple on hearing the news that a painting which he sold for £120 had proved to be a genuine Rembrandt and worth £30,000. He had trouble with his creditors, and was unable to sell pictures he had' purchased in Europe for £300,000. He had placed the pictures round his room, and was gazing on Rubens "Adoration of the ) Magi," when he committed Buicide. j
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20027, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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88THE LAST STRAW. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20027, 10 March 1914, Page 5
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