DREAD OF WAR
FOUR DEATHS IN FRENCH FAMILY LONDON, October 2. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” relates the story of Pierre Barbazange, who was ordered to join his regiment wnile honeymooning and staying with his wife’s parents. The dread of war led to a suicide pact and the quartet were found unconscious in the parents’ home suffering from the effects of charcoal fumes.
Neighbours revived them, but Barbazange shot and killed his wife and turned the revolver on himself. The wife’s parents, M and Mde Delamotte, on hearing the news, hanged themselves.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1938, Page 5
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