MAN KILLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1938, Page 14

MAN KILLED

BROKEN HILL TRAGEDY. BROKEN HILL, January 6. Just after shots were heard at the. rear of an office in Oxide Street this afternoon, a woman rushed out Into the street, bleeding from the head. More shots were heard, and a man was found dead, with two bullet wounds near the heart. The woman was Mrs. Priscilla Nockolds, part owner of the Mikado Cafe in Oxide Street. She was taken to hospital with wounds in the forehead, jaw, and chest. Her condition is satisfactory. The man was Albert Jenkins, unemployed, who, it is believed, has relatives living at Stawell, Victoria. He resided in Beryl Street.

Clyde Doldissen, a youth employed at the land and estate agency of John Picken and Son, gave the first news of the tragedy to the police. The office is only two doors from Mrs. Nockold’s cafe.

“I was in the office when a man and woman came in,” said Doldissen. describing the affray. “I noticed the woman had on the uniform of an attendant at the cafe up the road. She asked me if they could go out to the back and, thinking that they wanted to take a short cut into the back of the cafe, I said it would be all right. They had not been out long when I heard a bit of a scuffle. I thought something was wrong, and then I heard a crack. It was like the sound of a gun.

“I am not a good hero, and I dashed into the shop next dooi- to get another man to go with me to see what had happened. The woman ran out of the office, bleeding from the head, and I heard more cracks in a room at the rear. When we went in, we saw a man stretched out on his back. He was dead. I immediately telephoned the police and told them what had happened.” It is stated that Mrs. Nockolds knew Jenkins, and that he was at her shop last night. Jenkins had been in Broken Hill for intermittent periods during the past 12 months. He first came here with the racehorse Galaxy.