THE BOTANY TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2625, 22 November 1915, Page 6

THE BOTANY TRAGEDY

'ALLEGED GERMAN SPY.

By 'IWeemsli—Press Association—Copyright

Sydney, November 20.

At an inquest concerning the death of the BraUns,; husband arid wife, a letter written by Braun was Tead. The letter bitterly complained of threats by other soldiers, after ,he had come out of hospital ; and during the voyage from Egypt, because it tfas alleged he was a German spy. This led to heavy drinking on his part—an attempt at suicide, arid temporary incarceration in an asylum.

The medical evidence was to the effect that Braun's mental trouble was duo;' to alcoholism. The verdict was that' Braun: cut his wife's throat and then his own.

( ' [A message received a few days ago stated: A Botany boy, named Braun, returning from ■ school, discovered his mother with her head almost severed, and his fatter alongside with his throat cut and a razor in his hand. Both were dead. Braun was a soldier, and was recently invalided from Egypt. Since his Teturn tho couple frequently quarrelled,]., ;