EXTRA ORDINARY SHOOTING CASE.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 21, 18 June 1896, Page 2

EXTRA ORDINARY SHO OTING CASE.

I ' * """ I A distressing affair is reported from Copenhagen. Mr. David Lloyd Morgan has shot himself and a girl named Cecilia Karolina Anderson. A Copenhagen telegram of 17th February Baid: — "She was a seamstress, belonging to Malmo, and was only 19 years of age. The couple were seen to meet at the railway station in Copenhagen at half - past 7 yesterday evening. They entered a first-class carriage, which had been engaged by Mr. Morgan, Both seemed to be labouring under very great excitement, their demeanour, indeed, attracting the attention of people on the platform. When the train arrived at Klampenborg, which is not far from Copenhagen, they were » found lying on the floor of the carriage, the girl having a bullet wound in her left temple, and the man a similar wound in his right temple. They were still alive. Medical aid was at once summoned, and they were conveyed to the hospital in this city. An attempt was made to extract the bullet in the case of Mr. Morgan, but without success. Death resulted in both cases about 11 o'clock at night. No motive can be assigned for the crime, and no information on the point could be gleaned from the victims themselves, who remained unconscious from the time they were discovered at Klampenborg until their death. Mr. Morgan was the son of a merchant "in Liverpool, now deceased. The marked ability and wide knowledge he displayed as a lecturer on the .English language and literature at the University of Lund had earned for him considerable reputation, and his lectures were always largely attended. He was also well known and greatly liked in society at Copenhagen. He translated a number of works of distinguished Swedish writers into English, and prior to his death was engaged with Dr. Wenstrom in the compilation of a Swedish-English dictionary.