Tragedy in a Sydney Hotel.
(Per Press Association) Sydnky, November 12. A sensational suicide occurred at the Oxford Hotel, Sydney, to-day. Two brothers, Julius and Max Monck, believed to be strangers to the town, left letters saying that they intended to die together. Julius shot himself doad, and then Max, using tho same revolver, also shot himself, and fell dead across his brother's body. The cause of tho suicide is at present unknown. This Day. The Moucks had only receutly opened in business here as skin merchants. In letters thoy make vague allusions to a conspiracy against them by certaiu people and also that they had been robbed by clients. These letters are dated a fortnight back, and enclosed was a cheque to cover funeral oxpenses. Their conduct at several houses where thoy stayed has been eccentric.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 117, 13 November 1894, Page 2
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