THE AFFAIR AT CHARING CROSS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8928, 17 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE AFFAIR AT CHARING CROSS.

A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

The youug girl, Matilda Hortoa, of whose shooting we gave an account, has had, it is reported, various admirers and followers and she might on more than one occasion have comfortably settled down in life had she definitely chosen between them, She, however, for the past twelve months professed an unchanging regard for the memory of a former lover, named Arthur Pothecary, also a young volunteer, whom she ujed to walk out with more than twelve months ago. He considered that his affections were unreciprocated, and he shot himself with a revolver. On the girl being examined at the hospital, a strange discovery was made. It was found that she had tattooed on her arm the words, "I love Arthur Pothecary," It was at first thought that that was the name of the young man who had shot himself at Charing Cross, and whose dead body was just about to bo brought in, but on an explanation being given, it was stated that that was the name of tho former young man ahe used to go out with, and that the sad end of Arthur Home was a double tragedy in connection with her life. The Corner's jury in Home's case roturned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind."