SYDNEY TRAGEDY.
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED REJECTED LOVER'S CRIME. CAEiE— PEESS ASSOCIATION—COprEIGKTj uusTSiLii:; :;.z. cable association.) (Received September 21st, 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 21. A tragedy is reported from Petersham. A railway fireman named MeInncs, or McGuiness, shot dead a barmaid named Winifred Poley, aged twenty-one, and thea shot himself. He is in a serious condition. Tan couple had been keeping company. The girl discovered that he was a married man separated from his wife', and broke off (he courtship, but he persisted in pressing hi 3 attentions. She sought protection from the police, who warned the man, but he still persisted, and on Saturday visited the hotel, where the girl worked. She went to the police station and complained. On returning, Mclnnes met her. and an altercation was proceeding when another admirer of the girl intervened. Mclnnes suddenly grasped the girl round the waist, and shot her twice through the breast, and himself in the head.
The police, who had visited the hotel in search of Mclnnes, arrived on the scene just as the man shot himself. Mclnnes's condition is improving.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 9
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