A FORGED NOTE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 December 1927, Page 5

A FORGED NOTE.

I LEADS TO TRAGEDY. THREE LIVES INVOLVED. ' Press Association-Electric Telegfaph-Cdpyrisbi (Received Thursday, 9.1 a.m.) BERLIN, Wednesday. The “Daily Alail’s ” Berlin correspondent reports that Doctor Geiss, exbarrister, for Christmas purchases at Munich tendered a hundred mark note which the manager recognised as false. Geiss said that it was not false. The police were called, and found forged notes to the value of £llO on Geiss, who declined to say how he came into possession of them. He was arrested. A warder, when bringing breakfast to the cell on Christmas morning, found Geiss Read as the result of poisoning. A. charwoman searched Geiss’s silent home and found a canary in a 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 the younger daughter died in the 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. The police are investigating how he came into possession of them. —“Sun.'’