MURDER AND SUICIDE
WILFUL PERPETRATION
THE SHUTFORD TRAGEDY
(Received August 13, noon.)
LONDON, August 12.
AX the inquest, on the victims of the Shutford shooting tragedy a verdict, was returned of wilful murder and suicide.
-It was reported yesterday that as a bus was drawing up near the village green in Shutford, Oxfordshire, Wilfred Gibbs, aged 29, a blacksmith, fired a gun at the occupants of the vehicle, and then turned the weapon upon himself, falling dead. His wife Ellen, aged 25, her sister, Ivy Goode. aged 21. Joseph Messenger, aged 40, and William Messenger, aged 46, were wounded, and all died except William Messenger. The tragedy was due to domestic differences between Gibbs and his wife. The Messenger brothers were struck by shots intended for Mrs. Gibbs and. possibly also her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Gibbs were married three years ago, but separated recently.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 38, 13 August 1935, Page 9
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