COOTAMUNDRA SHOOTING

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1935, Page 7

COOTAMUNDRA SHOOTING

• Sydney, March 26. - Detectives who are investigating the shooting of the two young women near Cootamundra are unable^to gain much information, "but they are convinced that there is a rejnarka"bl"e story behind the crime. The wounded girl is Kiss Dulcie Tenzer, aged 22, not Florence Penser, as cabled. She was until recently employed by a pastoral newspaper printed in Sydney, but resigned' last week and went to visit the home of the dead girl, Miss Yvonne Officer, aged 25. not Rose Officer as cabled.

The pair were driving in a motor-car to Qootamundra when, according to Miss Tenzer, her attention/ was directed to a flock of sheep. She turned-her head and was immediately shot behind the right ear,. ... the bullet emerging on the opposite side of her face near the nose. She then saw Miss Officer level the revolver at her own head. . The bullet shattered her temple. Miss Officer died immediately. Miss .... : Tenzer, despite her condition, left the car'and walked several miles to a homestead where she gasped out brief details of the tragedy and collapsed, since .. :. when her condition, has been grave. The police.found Miss Officer's body in /the driver's seat of the car ' and a revolver, with t four live'bullets, bst\veen sher ■ overcoat and dress. The police discovered a torn cheque for £20 "beside the car which is expected to throw some light on the crime. Miss Tenzer had announced her impending marriage to a relative of Miss Officer, faut the latter's parents declare Miss' Tenzer was only joking. Miss Officer was a competent horsewoman and had entertained a great deal'at Sydney.' Where the car was found was eight miles off the roai which Miss Officer should have taken in order to reach Cootamundra. v ; ■ ,