A HASTINGS SENSATION.
MAN SHOOTS HIS WIFE. THEN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. A man named Edward Masters, a rabbiter, of Hastings, this morning shot his wife and then attempted to commit suicide. It appears that the couple had been separated for some time. Masters met his wife at the train arriving here from Napie rat noon. They began an altercation near the station, when Masters drew a revolver, and fired upon his wife, the bullet entering the upper and inner part of her right arm near the shoulder, and lodginb near the leftshoulder-blade. The man then fired three shots into the air, and at last one at his head, the bullet entering into the skull above the right ear. Masters is unconscious, and the condition of both man and wife is considered dangerous.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 2
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137A HASTINGS SENSATION. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 6 February 1905, Page 2
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