KILLER'S THREAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 5 May 1926, Page 8

KILLER'S THREAT.

"WILL MURDER HER/ , BLOOB-LTJST WINS. ' ' LONDON, April m "I often heard Rushton remark, I'll that dashed girl, , "' eaid the Manager of the Anchor Hotel, Shepper--1»n, Middlesex, at the inquest on the •victims of the honeymoon tragedy at the hotel last -week—Rushton and Cecilia Sewings, 25, whom he had bigamously "Snarried and whom he shot dead, then suicide. "Sometimes he said it in fun when Splaying draughts," continued witness, fbut he eaid it angrily when Miss ' "Tewings refused to attend an auction *ale .at a riverside bungalow, after -which they quarrelled." The manager ■»dded that* Eushton arrived at the hotel -with his pockets stuffed with banknotes, continually changed £10 notes, but Eventually he gave a cheque which was fiishonoured. Fewinjvs brother gave evidence that ~siis s : s+er rtid not know Rushton was . -inarm-d. When she left home she had JEI34 in lior possession. The dead woman's diary showed that met Rushton in 1925. One extract jread: "We dined together; had a sweet The coroner said Rushton was clearly ijlt the end of his tether, but he could enly conjecture why the man murdered Pewings. He returned a verdict that jtushtrm. while- insane, murdered FewtnSß and then committed suicide.