WELLINGTON SHOOTING AFFRAY

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13328, 30 July 1915, Page 5

WELLINGTON SHOOTING AFFRAY

k■• /«'■';■: vpATA^TERMI-NATIpN^,.; - ■■■} --'(PerPross AsßOolation) IJ. --.■ • '-■ WELLINGTON,JuIy. 28.. 1 .... Many Parslow; who shot himself after |iin altercation with a soldior named CoJ.- -, lingwood, died at an'early-hour this >';' morning, ■..•■'■' ', ■"'; ' " ! . -,. [ : ; Inquiries,go to show that tho affair i, ,\vas'e)iicfly.'.'(l«o to aiink, *, ■ .'.', ',,,'""", ••. ; Mrs.Parslow. stales ithat' on account r of her. husband's drinking v habits slid • : had beenliving apart from Mm. fpr j about six months, but tlicy had lived again for the past wcck:;or ) two, during "which lime he still continued' | > to drink. The revolver was an 'old one, 1 which she hud-originally-purchascdior > hor own protection. Gollingwood iiscd to take a room from her during tho time ho was on leave from Somes Island, where ho was a guard, and yesterday aftornoon he and her 'husbaud and daughter 'were talking. together, .for'vq considerable time. Her husbaud )vas under the inllueuqe .of Hquor, mid npi pcarcdi considerablyannoyodthuthowas ' unablo to sit on tho sofa, Suddenly ho I pulled the revolver out of /his pockot, and without the slightest warning fired at Collingwqod, who had a remarkably - narrow, escape. Then Parslow.shot'hiuii self in. tkoliead, the wound proving*fatal ;,' af ten'midnight. e -. ■ .. i .VERDICT iAT. THE INQUEST. ' (Per Press Associulion) s- ■ .'■ " k '■■■:■■. . I WELLINGTON, July 29. j; At. the inquest ■on Parslow, the. vie-' e tim oi 1 the Martin street .tragedy", a vcr- ;- diet was returned that doath was diio (I to. ; shock ...from a bullet wound,, selfii indicted, while the man was temporarily ; insane. "■ " : -•''"""■■ • '