SENSATIONAL MURDER

Grey River Argus, 3 August 1935, Page 7

SENSATIONAL MURDER

IN SYDNEY STREET Woman Shot INFATUATED MURDERER SUICIDES. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received August 2 } at 8.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 2. A sensational shooting affray in broad daylight, which was witnessed by a motorist, occurred on Victoria Road, GJadesville a suburb of Sydney today. A woman named Mary Emma line Andrews, who formerly was a wardsniaid, employed at 'the GladosviLe 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 a motorist, Francis Hume. He informed rthe po'.iee that he was driving his car near the scene when he observed Kopievsky speak to the woman Andrews, who was about to go o duty at a neignbouring asylum. He then saw Andrews rush across the road, and Kopviesky follow her. He tired three shots. The woman then dropped dead on the tramline. Hume stated that he accelerated his car and swung it round and tried to run down Kopievsky after the first shot was fired. Kopievsky. however, eluded him. and then 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 Busman, and were married.