JEALOUS HUSBAND

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1925, Page 5

JEALOUS HUSBAND

SHOOiS WIFE IN BEDROOM.

THEN COMMITS SUICIDE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' PERTH, June 28. Tw;o you,ng women named . StoU,a Moore and Doyle, were sleeping in a bungalow in the grounds of the Hotel Rockingham. Doyle left the room for a few minutes, and on returning found Moore with a bullet wound in the face, and a man lying dead alongside the bed with a bullet through the head.

Stella Moore is hot in a serious condition.

It is stated that the dead man was her husband. He crept, bootless to the room and shot her and himself.

Some weeks ago, Moore was a resident of Geraldton. He informed the police that his wile was missing. He traced , her to .Rockingham. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the tragedy. >■

LIBRARY TRAGEDY.

A WIFE’S PROTEST

LONDON, June 27.

At the inquest on Duddles and Sarson, the jury found that Duddles committed suicide by poison when of unsound mind, and that Sarson died of a gunshot wound. An open verdict was returned. ! Mrs. Sarson created a scene by saying that she could not understand why Duddles was allowed to have six rifles in a public building. The Coroner replied that that was a matter • for the police.

The discovery was niade at the Shoreditch Public Library of the lead bodies of Thomas Duddles, aged 60, the caretaker, and Edward Sarson, aged 37, his assistant. The former was poisoned and Sarson was shot in the head. Chalked on a bench in buddies’ handwriting was the message: “Had a terrible accident. I have shot Sarson. I am going mad.” Duddles left a note indicating that, he and Sarson were cleaning some ■ rifles, of which Duddles (an ex-bluejacket) had a collection, when one exploded.