AN AUCKLAND SENSATION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 304, 28 June 1909, Page 5

AN AUCKLAND SENSATION.

ATTEMPTED MURDERSUICIDE OF THE ASSAILANT.. [press association.] AUCKLAND, to-day. A German, who went under the name of L. W. Bbmer, boarding at a house kept by Mrs Phoebe Cornish, of Campbell Road, next the Royal Oak Hotel, on Sunday morning shot Mrs Cornish. She raised her left hand as she saAv a revolver pointed at her, and the bullet crashed through her forearm, missing 1 her body. A second shot struck Mrs Cornish on,j the left temple, but the bullet glanced off the bone. Bonier then turned the weapon on himself, and put the bullet through his own head, death ensuing. Mrs Cornish, though suffering great pain, is not fatally hurt. Bomer is not the real name of the suicide.. He was a well-educated man, and is believed to be well connected in Germany. His mind was evidently unhinged. He' had shown great fondness for one of Mrs Cornish's children, but owing to constant gambling and disagreement with others, he had been told to leaved the house.