TRAGEDY AT AUCKLAND
UNREQUITED LOVE. MAN TRIES TcTSHOOT GIRL, thln COMMITS SUICIDE. [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 11.
A sensation occurred here this afternoon. A young man named Charles Hutchison, a veterinary surgeon, went to the Post Office Hotel to see a young lady, recently employed there, and who was shipmate with Hutchison on the voyage from England. Seemingly his visit was unwelcome, and he was told that the girl had gone out, bat he waited about. Eventually, seeing the girl, he caught hold of her, and dragged her into the washhouse. A member of the hotel staff heard screams, and reshing out beheld an astounding spectacle. The girl had the man clasped by the wrists. In one hand ho held a revolver. Hutchison wrenched his right hand free, levelled the revolver at the girl, and fired, but the shot missed. The hotel assistant seized the girl, and got her away. In so doing he narrowly escaped instant death, having ducked his head just in time to miss a second bullet. He carried the girl to safety. Hutchison then turned the revolver on himself, placing it against his left temple. He fired, and fell, bleeding copiously, m a state of collapse. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where he subsequently died.
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Evening Star, Issue 15516, 11 June 1914, Page 4
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213TRAGEDY AT AUCKLAND Evening Star, Issue 15516, 11 June 1914, Page 4
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