A LOVER'S TRAGEDY.

Evening Star, Issue 5073, 9 June 1879, Page 3

A LOVER'S TRAGEDY.

An Inquest was recently held at Bristol on the body of Frank Sedgbear, a young man who, after twice Bhooting his sweetheart, Emily Tripp, shot himself dead. The evidence taken showed that the pair had been lovers about three years, and they were about twenty-two years of age. As Sedgbear failed too meet her ou Sunday night, Emily Tripp, with a female companion, went to church without him, and refused to see him afterwards, and with her companion went for a walk with two gentlemen. He became greatly irritated, aa he had on previous occasions. During the same evening ho had in his possession a six-chambered revolver, which, together with ball cartridge, ho had taken from the portmanteau of a friend, who in the afternoon had been explaining to him its now Erindple. He told hia friend lie wished ho ad had it last week, aa there would have been one less in the world than there wa3 now. He should either have done for himself or another. His own pistol had been broken. When Emily Tripp returned home from her walk, Sedgbear was waiting for her, and begged her to come out for five minutes. After some hesitation she consented. They had not gone far when he upbraided her for her coolness towards him ; and on her refusing to give him the name of the gentleman she had walked with that evening, he drew the revolver, shot her in tho cheat, and as she turned from him he shot her in the back. He was pursued, and when ho found hia pursuer gaining on him be held his head v itli mio arm while he placed the revolvor in his mouth and fired. Death in his case was instantaneous, Hia sweetheart, however, is

likely to recover, and had a most marvellous escape. The bullet, discharged so close to her that her dress wa3 singed, had its progress stopped by the steel of her corset, which was splintered, and her skin was grazed close to the region of the heart, tut the ball then fell harmlessly among hor clothes. The shot in her back, entering below the right shoulder-blade, travelled beneath the skin round the rib to the left breast, keeping jnst under the skin, and then passed out. The jury returned a verpict of felo de sr.