A WEDDING TRAGEDY
FORTY GUESTS POISONED. *
(Received .liast Night, 5.5 o'clock.) PARIS, Nov. 8.
Out of fifty guests who were pre- 1 sent at a double wedding at Chfillet, forty .were poisoned through eating custard. Eight succumbed, and ten are in a critical condition. .J,. The tragedy is attributed to jealousy on the part of a rival of .one of the bridegrooms. N Both of the newlymarried couples recovered.
[The tragedy brings to mind a similar tragedy that occurred at Pahiatiia' over twenty years ago. A wedding breakfast took place,. and a num'tw>r of the guests, including Mr Peter Dickson, then a prominent trader-nun in Masterton, succumbed tt> the effects of poisoning. "Hie' author of that tragedy'has not 1 yet been discovered.]
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19131110.2.23.3
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 November 1913, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
122A WEDDING TRAGEDY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 November 1913, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in