MURDER AND SUICIDE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 57

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

THE SYDNEY SENSATION.

SUPPOSED RESULT OF JEALOUSY

SYDNEY, June 9. The inquest on the victims of the Castlereagh street tragedy is still unfinished. The evidence indicates that the man Walker and the woman Pounceby (who were found shot dead in a room) had been keeping company for a considerable. time. They are said to have been mutually jealous. A fortnight, before the tragedy Pounceby told a friend that she and Walker had quarrelled, but she could not live without him, and intended to shoot icoth herself and him. A private detective deposed that Pounceby last Monday week employed him to ascertain if Walker was married, and his relations, with other women. She was very excited. Another witness said she saw them at a hotel together the night before the shooting. Walker was drunk, but the girl was sober. Pounceby asked hex “What she would do if her ‘hoy’ went with other women.” The witness said she replied, “Leave him or shoot him.” Pounceby said “I will shoot to-night Walker,” adding, “if you look in the papers to-morrow you will see a tragedy.” The experts who gave evidence were positive that the note found in the room was in Pounceby’s writing. [The note expressed the intention of the woman to kill Walker.] SYDNEY, June 10.

After further medical and police evidence strengthening the theory that Walker did the shooting in the Castlereagh street tragedy, the jury found that the victims decided to die together, and that Walker shot Pounceby and then himself.