MURDER.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9124, 7 June 1895, Page 5

MURDER.

A MAN SHOT DEAD. (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, June 6. At Masterton a man named Andrew J. Somerville deliberately shot at and killed another man, Arthur Herbert, in Queen street, ihi_ afternoon. Somerville had been working for Herbert, and a dispute regarding a claim for £19, wages, occupied the S. M. Court this morning, the case being adjourned for a fortnight. Somerville, on leaving the Court, about midday, purchased a six-chambered revolver, and at about 4 30 p.m. was seen talking to Herbert outside the Club Hotel, several persons being in the street at the time. Suddenly he drew the revolver, and saying " Take that," fired a shot which entered Herbert's body in the region of the heart. The latter threw up his arms, and turning round staggered across the read. Somerville fired two more shots at him and Herbert fell dead, the bystanders scattering in all directions. Constables Collerton and Nestor, who were within fifty yards of the scene, rushed at the murderer and secured him. The former took away tbe revolver which, on examination, proved to have three remaining chambers loaded. Somerville made no resistance, and remarked that he Avould go quietly. Both men are single. Herbert is au old settler. The other had been working on several contracts in the district, and was generally looked upon as a quieb man. The affair caused no little sensation in the town.