THE HAND OF FATE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 56, 11 July 1913, Page 5

THE HAND OF FATE.

MISTAKEN FOR BEER.

A DOUBLE FATALITY

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press 'Association.]

Melbourne, July 4

A double fatality is reported from Eircljip, the victims being W. G. Runkin, a landowner of Watchem, and James Smith, a jockey. Both men left Birehip in a gig on Sunday, intending to drive to Rankin’s place, at Watchem. They had some beer with them, and also a bottle containing rabbit poison.

From particulars available it appears that while driving along the road the men drank the rabbit poison, with fatal results. Two horsemen met them when they were in a precarious condition, and summoned assistance, but both men were beyond aid.

FATE OF TWO BROTHERS.

PECULIAR COINCIDENCE

Melbourne, July 4

Robert Tempest, ■an employee of Swallow and Ariel!, Ltd., who was admitted to Melbourne Hospital yesterday suffering from a fractured skull, sustained as the result of a fall while washing a bake-house, died to-day.

Exactly a week ago Ids brother, Henry Tempest, died in the Melbourne Hospital from a fractured skull, but how he received the injuries has not yet been determined. Last Friday, Robert Tempest attended at the morgue on the occasion of the inquest into the death of Henry Tempest. As the police could not then put forward evidence showing how the deceased man received his injuries, the inquest was adjourned. It is now not improbable that the inquests on the two brothers will be held the same day.