SHOOTS WIFE

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 February 1920, Page 6

SHOOTS WIFE

TANK HERO'S AWFUL END. Having- been interrupted by Lis wife while attempting suicide before a looking-glass a Liverpool Tank Corps hero—winner of the B.C.M. and Military Medal—afterwards shot her and then accomplished his determination to end his own life. The dramatic story was told before the Liverpool coroner and a jury at the inquest on George Bentley Shepherd, 27, manager of a garage in Liverpool, and his wife, Catherine McKarrigan Shepherd, 25. • The principal witness was a cousin of the husband, Phyllis Mary Baldwin, who resided with, the couple at their home. The Coroner: Has there been any familiarity between you and your cousin ?- —No. On the morning of the tragedy she kissed both and said, "Good morning." They were, in bed, and Mr Shepherd said, "Don't talk; my head aches." There was no tone of annoyance, and everything,* seemed as usual. Witness described how she came home late in the evening, failed to get any reply to her repeated knockings, climbed into the house through a back window, and, without striking a light, went straight to bed.