A FATAL QUARREL.
WOMAN SHOT BY POLICE CONSTABLE. WHO THEN COMMITS SUICIDE BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION - COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Dec. 19. Following a quarret in a lane iff <-r.e of the main thoroughfares in Leichhardt shortly before midday, Police Constable Airtbmr Ford fatally shot with a revolver Mrs Florence Laws .four bullets taking effect. He then fatally .shot himself. Crowds of people were a few yard*-' away, and, on rushing to the scene, found evidences of a violent struggle. Mrs Laws was dead and Ford unconscious. The latter, who died on route to the hospital, was on sick Lave suffering from mental depression.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 December 1927, Page 5
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101A FATAL QUARREL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 20 December 1927, Page 5
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