GUESTS SHOT DEAD.
FRIENDS DiSTENIKG TO MUSIC. While guests at a Glasgow party were listening td music two revolver shots' were heard, coming from a bedroom. Rushlug into the room the other members of the party found a man and a WOMfth shot. Tbe cotipie were:— Harrison Stefnson, aged 45, a married mali, of Glasgow Street, Hlllhead, and Jean Detapsey, aged 23, a waitress, of Dumbolton Road, Glasgow. The glfi was lying aerosg the bed ana the man was on the floor With ft revolver containing three empty shells by big side. Both died an hour later. Steriisofi and the girl bad gOtte to the house of Mrs. Ferguson, In Gardner Street, earlier in the evening, where a merry party was being held. After a meal, and while the other guests were listening to music, the couple went into the kitchen, where they talked for a time. Later they Wefit into the bedroom, and it is believed that the cause of the tragedy was the determination of the young woman to p«tl tho friendship between tUelli; wniiili hail existed foP some tiiiie. Stcl-ilseu had four children; ."nil the-girl «_ n popular member of the waiting staff at a largo Cafe. Tlie r,utit-'< Mfeve that the mail shot the ivotimil fir*! mil then turned the revolver ou himself.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 23
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