PATHETIC FAMILY TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 7

PATHETIC FAMILY TRAGEDY.

SUICIDES FROM WORRY.

Bj Toleeraph—Preßs Association—Oopyriglt London ( September 30. A woman named Mrs. Cowo has been discovered in an unconscious condition 111 the room of an hotel at King's Li tho sanig .room was also found tho dead body of her son Aleo, a Dlyecoatj Schoolboy. Tho cause of tho boy's death and 1 tho illness of Mrs. Cowo l were apparently duo to chocolates containing morphia, that Iliad been eateU' by tho two. 4 ' i Tho discover)' lids heen responsible' for tho revelation of a remarkablo family,! tragedy. 51rs. (,'owo's husband, who' was a silk merchant at York, previously drowned himself in. a hath, owing to businesß trouble.

, Tho eldest son, William, ■ committed suicide by turning-on Wio gns in a room, and tlio boy Alec then narrowly escaped* death, as William had placcd tho tuba I from tho gas bracket under tho clothes'] on tho bed in which tho two slept. TJIO mother, apparently determined to'' givo Aleo a final good time, camo to London a fortnight ago, and took him! for a daily taxicab drive and to tW theatre every evening. Sho tlien gayq hiin tQio poisoned chocolates. , ' Tho mother is likely to recover.