Wife Gets Last Message from Husband.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 43

Wife Gets Last Message from Husband.

A telephone operator seated at the Central switch board was called and heard a terrible voice at the other end of the wire call frantically for 3 number. It was the doomed watchman, who, realising that death was inevitable, was calling up his wife to bid her farewell. The wife was given the wire, but the details of that incredible conversation

E ver will be known. For a few mo- - at, the wife listened to the voice of I t husband and then his fate over•»k him. There was one last cry and a terrible crash. The floor had fallen and flames had seized their victim. Another tragedy of the telephone oeftrred two years ago on the south State-street. A man who Kad been jilt*l by his sweetheart entered a saloon hear her house and drank himself into a state of frenzy. In this condition he Sstermined on the murder of the young lonian who had proven faithless to and enlisted the telephone to bis in a unique manner. * Knowing that the telephone in her house was Ciose to the first floor window, he rang tp the woman from the saloon and in a “fuiaed voice naked her to hold the

wire for a moment, as there was some one who wished to speak to her. Dropping his receiver, he ran round to the house and. through the window, shot the waiting woman dead.