ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
(per prkss association.)
Gisboene, January 20. • This evening, at Tekeraia, a young man named John Fletcher attempted to shoot Miss Howe Chow, eldest daughter of Mr George Howe Chow, owner of the Tekeraka Hotel. Fletoher was on horseback at the time, and was seized and disarmed. He was released and rode away, and later on he was found a mile away in a critical condition, haying evidently tried to poison himself with carbolio acid.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7367, 21 January 1902, Page 2
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78ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7367, 21 January 1902, Page 2
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