A Poison Tragedy.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1921, Page 3

A Poison Tragedy.

UNITKI) SKRVICE TELEGRAMS. j \ LONDON, November 1. 1 Poisoned champagne is believed to be ' the cause of a fourfold tragedy Ml •' the most fashionable quarter ol Stiea- J than.. Tim bodies of Ernest foat'.s ( (engineer l bis wi|e. the lattt: y ni ‘" , vied daughter. Mrs Townsend and le-r , son Henry Garni, by a previous mar- j liage were found looked in a maso- , nette. The police are trying to sole.- ■ by whom the )«•!'>"» il s « administered. | (’nates wrote three letters inelmling „ne tel the coroner which 'ed to th<‘ ] pi,lice forcing all entry. t A maid employed by (oates -taps ( she was s'-nt away for the week-end. , Neighbours Slat' 1 the deeea-ed Wrio i ~f n-centric habits and lived seelmled j lives. : lUN DON. Nov 2. In connect in, nil, the Stivai ham J tragedv. apparently the father, nether, grown-up daughter and sou. who werliving happily, a reed lo inmmil s„t- ( cide owing to money troubles, due to a ( deer,‘Us, of in, one- sin, a I lie armed !■ e ( 'Hie father was a prosperous engineer , Tin her was a Spanish woman, am! , was otiee a nurse to King Allonso. Ihe ( dan'liter had 1 cl> an actress, the fa- ( ,11 iIV never drank wine. The, pur- ( (•based champagne specially on Satur- , day. The poison used was cyanide of j potassium. i

A POISON TR \GEDY. (Received This Day at 5.30 a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 1 The "Daily Mail” states Coates, tin,'ii tim of the Slrea'hain tragvlv. wareivmlv charged and reiuandcd on a •ha,go of misappropriation of sterling, lie, his wile and ' daughter mteied „ solemn eolnpact to die rather than laic disgimc. Tii ■> resolved their soil should die cist. It !■> hclicvcil he knew limbing of the den ‘ [•ompu’l. All -at ilown In the Ins l lneal it chicken and champagne. Ihe poisoned wine was lirst handed to the son who died immediately. Ibe body was icverently laid m> a bed and 'ben ■!■■■ remaining three prepitieil to die by their own hands. The women put mi then pietticsl iiightdi esses. The daughter drank 111 -l and uheii dead she was plaee*l hy her parents on the hod with her hands erosse I. Then the mother laid h.msell on tin- bed and (bank, and the husband aiiaiigod her in dentil, lie lur 1 sideways so he could lake a hist look as he was dying and then lay down hin-elf and look a fatal drink.