TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF SOLITUDE.
A formerly well-to-do Swiss family, named Aschwanden, consisting of lom young children and parents, built a. chalet near the summit of the Uri-Ros-toclc, 9620 ft. high, in order to.economise. ' The Alpine isolation, solitude, and strain, the Chronicle says, turned the mind of Mme. Aschwanden, who wanted to kill her husband and children. The husband, realising tlw< danger, descended to the valley of Isenthal in search of a doctor and to inform the police authorities. During his absence the woman set fire to the chalet, but with great bravery saved her four children, though she herself was badly burned. When the husband, doctor* and police climbed to the mountain top the chalet was 1 burnt to the ground, the four children saved, and. the mad. mother, was dancing atcuiul them. The unhappy woman has beer placed in an asylum.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3509, 27 April 1912, Page 3
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142TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF SOLITUDE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3509, 27 April 1912, Page 3
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