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Man Shoots Daughter
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Nov. 19.
Two police constable? told the Melbourne Coroner’S Court today they pleaded with a young man to fire his rifle at them rather than shoot his sleeping three-year-old daughter. They said they found the man, Albert Edgar Quinn, aged 33, of St. Kilda, sitting beside his daughter’s cot with the muzzle of a loaded rifle against her ear. Constable Eric Sutton said he pleaded with Quinn to ‘’put the gun on us . . . take your feelings out on us.” Nothing, they said, could save the child. Quinn took two puffs at a cigarette and pulled the trigger of his rifle, they said. Constable Ronald Robinson, the other policeman, said he dashed forward and grappled with Quinn —‘‘but he seemed to have the strength of a lion.” Later Quinn shot himself, Robinson told the Court.
The City Coroner (Mr H. W.
Pascoe, S.M.) found that Quinn murdered his daughter and then committed suicide. He praised the constables for their ‘‘high sense of duty” And their quick thinking.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29058, 21 November 1959, Page 18
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