MURDER AND SUICIDE

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1935, Page 7

MURDER AND SUICIDE

, WITNESSED BY MOTORIST : ' • * ■- • '•-• ■I:-' ‘ : SYDNEY COUPLE, SHOT [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.-—COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 2.; A sensational shooting affray in broad daylight, which was witnessed by a motorist, occurred on Victoria Road, Gladesville, a suburb of Sydney, to-day. . - Mary Emmaline Andrews, who for-, merly was a wardsmaid, employed at the Gladesville Mental Asylum, .was shot dead, allegedly by Peter Kopievsky, aged 58 years, a wharf labourer, who afterwards committed suicide with his revolver. • \ The shooting was related to the police by Francis Hume. He informed the police that he was driving his car near the scene when he observed Kopievsky speak to the woman Andrews, who was about to go to duty • at . a neighbouring asylum.. He then saw Andrews rush across the road,'.and Kopviesky follow her; He‘~fired three shots. The woman dropped dead onthe tramline. • ’ • Hume stated that he accelerated his car and swung it round afid tried to run down Kopievsky after the- first shot was fired. Kopievsky, however, eluded him, and the woman fell dead when Kopievsky fired a second shot. The latter gained the footpath, where he shot himself before Hume could reach him. . A woman acquaintance of Andrews told the police that Kopievsky was infatuated with Andrews. He had tried to find her the night before. Both Kopievsky, who was a Russian, and Andrews, were married. •: . ~

’ QUEENSLAND MYSTERY A MAN ARRESTED. (Recd? August 3, 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, August 3.. Startling discoveries were made by the police, searching for a timher-get-ter, named Ora Mills, who has been missing from his camp in the mountains near Boonah, for a month. At the butt of a fallen tree, Which was partly burnt, the police found small pieces of bone and false teeth. Large burnt ’human bones were found in a creek. . *■ A young, man has been arrested and charged with murder.