AN AFRICAN SENSATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1915, Page 7

AN AFRICAN SENSATION.

HUSBAND'S TERRIBLE REVERSE. A terrible tragedy occurred on Saturday night, November 14th, in the Fordsburg district of Johannesburg, as the result of which two men and a woman are dead, and a third man, a detective, is injured. One man shot the wife of another, and the husband of the murdered woman, meeting her murderer in the street, promptly shot her dead. He then retired to his room, and shot at a detective who attempted to arrest him, wounding the detective, though not seriously. The. husband proceeded to barricade himself in his room, and defied the police, who first tried to overcome him by pouring chloroform into the apartment through a fanlight. This method, however, failed, and the fire brigade were accordingly called up. A hoso was led into the room with the purpose of flooding the man out, but instead of surrendering he retired into a corner and committed suicide over his wife's body.