TRAGEDY OF POVERTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2401, 16 January 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

TRAGEDY OF POVERTY.

BURMA OFFICIAL SHOOTS WIFE, CHILI), AND HIMSELF. At a seaside bairding-liouse in Westbourne-street, Hove, the landlady on going upstairs one morning in November to call a family of three who had been staying with her for several weeks, found that their door, although ajar, was prevented from opening by some heavy weight which pressed against it from within. Tlio door when thrust open by the police anus found to have been obstructed by the dead body of a man lying huddled upon tlio floor. A heavy six-chambered revolver lay near his right hand. In his temple was a bullet wound. Lying in bed- as though sleeping peacefully were a woman and hoibaby-. They had been shot dead as tliev slept. At the inquest, held later it was found that Henry Pinkloy Wakley had murdered his wife and child and had' then committed suicide while insane. . . Letters were read showing that tlie man had suffered from an alleged unjust rule affecting promotion for English inspectors of police m Burma, that he saw nothing but starvation in front of him, and that he did not want his wife and child to-suffer. “I have resolved,” >he said, “after long thought, to shoot the three of us. Wakley # had been a victim ol sun- ) broke*-it “wStoS staled.