SOLDIER'S TRAGIC DEATH
SUICIDE IN A CATHEDRAL. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received 17, 5.5 p.m. Madrid, February 17. The attendants at Seville Cathedral found the body Of a sergeant on the altar, where he had shot himself. Me left letters to the Cardinal and the colonel of his regiment, and to his young wife, asking their pardon tor committing Buieide, and explaining thai he had appropriated regimental moneys to pay a gambling debt. The cathedral was closed to the public till the Car dinal had consecrated it again. The liing sent a 'message to break the news to the widow, aiul ordered that she be nursed at his expense during her approaching illness.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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113SOLDIER'S TRAGIC DEATH Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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