“ITS YOU OR NO-ONE!”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3996, 29 July 1913, Page 4

“ITS YOU OR NO-ONE!”

REMARKABLE .SUICIDE AT INVERCARGILL. [PEKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGEAMt INVERCARGILL. July 2?. A tragedy which possesses some peculiar features was investigated by the Coroner (Mr G. Cruikshanx. this evening. On Sunday afternoon a young man named John Cook, aged 23. employed at the Government Railway Workshops, was received at the hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the head, and died an hour later. From evidence given at the inquest it appeared that Cook had been on friendly terms with two girls named. Irene Turner and Lotfv Cosgrove. He met them on Sunday afternoon at the house of an acquaintance named Fred James Moss. There was a discussion as to which girl Cook preferred, and as Miss Cosgrove informed Miss Turner that she loved Cook she (.Miss Turner) told Cook. Cook, however, declared his preference for Mbs Turner, and tried to put his arm round her and kiss her. She waved him off and Cook then told her “It's you or no one/’ and produced a revolver and pointed at her. Miss Turner grabbed both his bands and pushed the revolver away. He threatened to “do for her,” but she said that she would come back to him. Cook then said that it was too late, and, putting the revolver to his head, he fired and fell. Lengthy evidente was given in corroboration of this account, and a verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while of unsound mind.