COLONEL AND WIFE SHOT

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1931, Page 10

COLONEL AND WIFE SHOT

FARM TRAGEDY IN CANADA. LONDON. May 21. Colonel Hilliard Lyle. D. 5.0.. ami his wife have been found shot on their farm. Beaver Lodge. 400 miles north of Edmontoii, in Alberta, Canada. states a Reuter telegram. The body of Mrs Lyle was found lying at the front door of the house and Colonel Lyle's in the basement. Mrs Lyle before her marriage was Miss Gertrude Tennyson. She was a grand-niece of the poet. Colonel Lyle, who was 52 years of age, was a veteran of the South African War and the Great War,’ and had also fought in ’Mexico and other Latin-American Republics. In the Great War he was a member of the famous Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. He was awarded the D.S.O. in June, 1917, for gallantry with the Canadians in France. A Central Nows message received Into last night stated that the heroism of a daughter who saw her mother shot was revealed at the inquest on Col. and Mrs Lyle. It was stated that Miss Sloan, a daughter of Mrs Lyle by a former marriage, heard her mother and stop, father arguing about business matters. Colonel Lyle, slm said, declared to his wife- that he would get. the answers to questions he intended asking or he would shoot her. The girl ran downstairs when her stepfather pointed the gun at her mother, saying: “One more step -and I'll shoot. “Miss Sloan continued towards her stepfather, when the gun went off and her mother fell dead.

The girl grappled with him and thrust him down into the cellar, and shortly afterwards a shot was fired.