DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 226, 17 June 1908, Page 8

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

GAOL WARDER SHOT. FOLLOWING ON FAMILY DISPUTE. 'A Melbourne advice, dated June 6, states that Hugh Kyle Dunn was shot dead by his brother-in-law, James Watson. Rosior, at Elstornwick. The victim is a supernumerary warder at Pentridgo. : Rosier is a gunsmith, and son of a well-known gunsmith of Eourko ■Street. He is 49, married, and has lived for soiiio years in Itusdcn Street.

• Dunn was married to Rosiorls sister, and it is said that Rosier was dissatisfied with the manner in which Dunn treated his wifo. On June 4, Rosier sent a message to the police, and Constable Boxhall went to the house. Rosier asked the officer to get Dunn away from tho premises. Dunn, had called thero seeking his wife, who had removed from her husband's residence at Coburg a number of articles of furniture. Dunn would not leave •the place, and said he had come there to get his wifo. Tho constablo told him. that Rosior was master in his own house, and that if ho did not go away ho might be given in charge for trespass. Dunn wtnt to the front door. Mrs. Rosier caUed him back, and said ■to him: "I will have a say in this." Dunn said ho would have his wife at any prico. On the morning of June 5 Mrs. Rosior sent a telegram to Dunn asking him to come out to Elstornwick in tho evening, as she wanted to patch up the quarrel. When lie came out Mrs. Dunn was not at homo, and Rosier was having his tea in the kitchen. Dunn ontered the kitchen. Mrs. Rosier, was in the front room. She heard a loud altercation ill the kitchen, and both men rushed down tho passage, and burst into tho room she was in. They struggled there for a moment, and a nhot was iired. Dunn dropped dead in Mrs. Rosier's arms with a shot wound through the heart. The weapon used was a double-barrelled breech-loading gun. As soon as the dreadful outeomo of tho quarrel had been realised, Rosior called in Dr. Travers. When the doctor reached tho houso ho could only inform Rosier and his wifo that Dunn was dead. The timo at which the tragedy-had occurred was fixed by the dead man's watch, the glass of which , had been broken by the shot. The watch had stopped at 8.7 p.m. -According to the statement of Mrs. Rosier the gun must havo beenpicked up by Rosior after the two men rushed struggling together into the front room, for sho informed the police that it had been standing in a corner of the room, with one barrel loaded. — At 9 o'clock Dr. Travers and Rosier went to Elstornwick Police Station, and informed Serjeant Keano of what had occurred. Rosior, who was in a dazed condition, and had been drinking, was detained. Ho said: ."I had the gun in my hand when Dunn rushed mo, and it went off; I don't know how." Rosier did not seem to t realise his position, and appealed to the sergeant to bo allowed to go, but ho was locked up on a charge of murdering Dunn.