SHOOTING AFFRAY AT BUNDABERG.
(BI CABL»—PBISS ASSOCIATION—COPIBIOHT.) (AUSTBAUAN AND N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received February oth, 5.5 p.m.) BRISBANE, February 5. Ic response to a telephone message, James Lomax went to the home of his friend, Lewis Holden Maynard, aged 67, at Bundaberg. When he arrived there Maynard said: "I have just shot my wife and I am going to shoot myself —watch."
Maynard then placed a pistol to bis mouth, fatally shooting himself. Lomax informed the police, who found -the dead body of Maynard's wife, Alice, aged 55, on the floor with bullet wounds in the head. Maynard, who at one time was Mayor of Bundaberg, had been in indifferent health for some time.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19227, 6 February 1928, Page 9
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