A TRAGEDY.
AT NEWCASTLE.
UnitediPress Association—By Electric Telegraph CopvriKnt. Received July 10, 1 a.m. SYDNEY, July 9. A tragedy was revealed at Newcastle to-night. The police entered a house in Wickham, and found the dead body of a man named Healy, while a woman named Streit was lying beside him. As the constable entered the woman placed a revolver to one of her ears, but the weapon missed fire. The woman had also taken chlorodyne. but not in a dangerous quantity.
The police had previously received a letter from the two persons concerned intimating that both intended to die together. Streit stated that the man shot himself last night, but she had not the courage to do it. Healy is a married man with five children. Streit is also married, but is living apart from her husband. It is believed that she came from New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9539, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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146A TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9539, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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