Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-12 | Page 1 | Husband and Wife in Duel to Death

BSD MO WIFE III BiEiJO DEATH Awful Tragedy Enacted in Little Cottage of Oakland Iron Worker. MAN USED BIG KNIFE WOMAN WIELDED EAZOR Worry Over Loss of Money and Domestic Unhappiness Said to Have Been Cause. OAKLAND, Jan. 11. Piotro Saroochi, an ironworker, and his wife, JReina, fought a duel to the death this morning in their little four-room cotlago in the Montgomery Iract. Ho was armed with a large butcher knife and she with a razor. After battling for fifteen or twenty- minutes the husband finally slew the wife and cut his own throat .from oar lo ear, expiring on( her dead body. Worry over money, which, it is said, was deposited in tho California bank, and the fact that his wife has left him several times recently, arc boliovcd to havo been among tho cnuses that led up to tho fatal quarrel. Saroochi and his wife returned last night from Los Angeles, An-geles, where ho had gone to get her after hor last flight from him. Their 3-year-old daughter was at tho home of a neighbor. It is believed from the condition p the bodies that after having administered adminis-tered the death blow to liis wife, Saroochi look tho razor from her hand and slashed his own throat, lie was 37 years of age and she 2S.