GIRL SHOT AT PICNIC
JEALOUSY SUGGESTED AS MOTIVE
Adelaide, October 13.
During a picnic at Bridgewater, a hillside resort near Adelaide, Nellie Schmidt, aged 18, was shot five times in the head by William Haines, aged 25, who was afterwards arrested and charged with murder. It is stated that after shooting the girl Plaines walked into the bush and turned tile revolver on himself. He inflicted a wound in the head which is not serious. Jealousy is believed to be the motive of the crime.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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85GIRL SHOT AT PICNIC Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 17, 14 October 1927, Page 11
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