TRAGIC AFFAIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1922, Page 5

TRAGIC AFFAIR.

WIFE AND HUSBAND DEAD. AN EX-NEW ZEALANDER. By Telegraph—Press Asen.—Copyright. Received Oct. 7, 5.5 p.m. Geneva, Oct. ft. A young married couple named Wallace, whose relatives live at Auckland, died at Lucerne under tragic circumstances.- The wife died as a result of poisoned food, whereupon the husband, in a fit of mania, fired a revolver shot into his dead wife’s head and then shot himself dead. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. Received October 8, 5.5 p.m. Geneva, Oct. 7. The Wallaces were recently married. Mrs. Wallace, who was twenty-three years of age, complained, that she was unwell, and her husband hurried, her to the best hotel, where a doctor diagnosed the case as one of food poisoning. The wife died in a few hours in terrible agony. The husband threw himself upon’ the body in a paroxysm of grief, and later, w*hen left alone, he got a revolver from his luggage and shot himself. It is understood Wallace came from New Zealand, but his wife was an English girl.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.