A WELLINGTON SENSATION.
THEFf OF A -BICYCLE,
A YOUNG MAN ARRESTED,
SHOOTS HIMSELF WITH A
REVOLVER.
NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE,
{By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
This morning Detective Campbell went to a boarding-house in Dixon-street to arrest a young man named E. A. Hughes, aged 22, on a charge of stealing a bicycle from the Public Library on December 2nd. Hughes was only partly dressed, and on the plea of getting his clothes, slipped into a wardrobe and shot himself through, the ear with a revolver. He -was removed to the hospital, but cannot live. Hughes had been a waiter. He was known to be hard UP- ______
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 290, 14 December 1897, Page 5
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108A WELLINGTON SENSATION. Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 290, 14 December 1897, Page 5
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