SECRET SOCIETY

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1931, Page 3

SECRET SOCIETY

BEDROOM SHOOTING SCENE.

LONDON, September 3.

A dramatic story of a shooting scene in the bedroom of a man who told his father that he was in the Secret Service was told at an inquest at Wallasey vesterday. A witness stated that the man, when drunk, sometimes talked about some secret society and said he was immune from arrest. It was also stated that he had mentioned that he had only 24 hours to live if he did not leave the country. The inquest was held on George william Glover, 22, commercial traveller, who was shot dead at his apartment at Oxford Road, Wallasey, on August 21, when a girl was wounded in the leg. Glover’s father said his son had told him that he was in the Secret Service. Q’he Coroner: Are you satisfied that it was so? Witness: I took it to be the truth, as he always told me the truth. Mrs Jessie May Vick, at whose house Glover had apartments, said he returned home with her niece, Nancy Vick, about 10.15 p.m. He was under the influence of drink. He was a most charming man when sober, but quarelsome after he had taken dxink. She heard sound of quarrelling upstairs, and about 11.30 p.m. a shot rang out. “I went to the room,” said Mrs_Vick, “and asked Nancy if she was hurt. “I got hold of the pistol in his hand, and he twisted me off and pointed it at me. I said, ‘Oh. Sammy, you would not do that.’ and I turned away. I looked again, and he had put the pistol up to his head and fired.” Nancy Eleanor Vick ssW she had been keeping company with Stover since Christmas. On this nijftt he was not sober when he called fit the house for her. but thev. went out. and he had one beer at a hotel. They returned to the house and he went upstairs. She followed and saw him taking the revolver from a drawer in his room. “I was frightened of it going off, the way he was playing with it,” she said. “I knew he would not shoot me, and I never thought he would use It at all. I was speaking to him about the drink, and told him I would write to his mother in the Isle of Man If he did not stop drinking. “We had been in the room about an hour, and I could not get the revolver from him. When ; said it would go off he said. ‘lt cannot. The safety catch is on.’ .It then went off, and I was shot in the knee. He said it was an accident and looked bewildered. "He did not seem to know where I was shot, and I believe it was an accident.” The coroner said no importance could be attached to the statement about the Secret Service, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.