UNPLEASANT AFFAIR.
SUICIDE IN A CATHEDRAL;
By Telegraph-Press Assodation-OoDyrielit "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.
(Rec. February 17, 5155 p.m.)
a -. .'Madrid,. February 17.' Attendants at Seville Cathedral found tho body of a sergeant on the altar, where he had shot himself. Ho left lettors to the cardinal, to the colonel of his regiment, and to his young wife asking pardon for committing suicide, and explaining that he had appropriated regimental moneys to pay a gambling debt . The cathedral will be closed to the P"blic until the cardinal hae reconsecrated it. •■
The King sent a messenger to break the news to the widow, and ordered that she should be nursed at his expense during Jior approaching confinement.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 7
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115UNPLEASANT AFFAIR. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 7
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