COUPLE LEAP TO DEATH FROM BALCONY
Received Monday, 7.55 .p m. - NEW Y'ORR, June 9. •Horace Marshall, age'd 36, secre-ta-ry and attorney to the Singor SeWing MachiTie Gonxpany, aind his attrac- * tive Wife, Amelie, aged 32, wlio is -alSo a lawyer, 'died tonight, in separate •leaps from their eigifteenth floot JPenthouse •apartmeh't. Marshall, clad th pyjamas, walkfed . ottt to the halcony, cliffibed over the" fOtir foot patapet arid jtfhiped to the eourtyafd beiow, * Hearing tlie crash, Mrs. Marshhll rau to -the parapet, saw her husband "s body, dohned -a coat Ovet her nightgown, took the *lift to the courtyard, ■ - ideiitihed the body ahd "theh eaid she was g'ping baek to her apartmeat to ihi'orhi her husband ' s brother. When she reached the apartment she •lock'ed the 'door aixd then^.le'aped i'rom the same baleony ih' Tull" view ' of the ; police. Her h'ody strubk tho pavement Wlthih five fee't of her hus- - band's. The cotiple Had been m'atrred . 'five .years. Relatives were ftnabie t'o give a rea'SOh for the 'COuple's actioh.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1947, Page 5
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