TRAGEDY AT AUCKLAND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14579, 19 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

TRAGEDY AT AUCKLAND.

■a AUCKLAND. June 28. A German who went under the name of L. W. Romcr, boarding at a house ■ kept hy Mrs Phoebe Cornish, of Campbell i road, next the Eoyal Oak Hotel, on ! Sunday morning shot Mrs Cornish. She ! raised her left hand as the revolver was ' pointed at her, and the bullet crashed ; through her forearm, missing her body. ' A second shot struck Mrs Cornish on the i left temple, but the bullet glanced olf the bone. Romer then turned the weaporon himself and put a- bullet through his own head, death ensuing. Mrs Cornish, though suffering great pain, is not fatally hurt. Roinev is not the real name of tho suicide, who was a well-educated man, and believed to be well connected in Gernuny. His mind was evidently unhinged. He had shown great fondness for one of Mrs Cornish's children, but' owing to his constant grumbling and dis- ' agreement with the othere he had been told to leavo the house. Homer, it is alleged, had previously stated that the U«rman Consul knew all about him. On a chest in his room is painted in large letters "A. von II." i He was believed to be an ex-officer in ' the German army, and was receiving a liberal allowance from his relatives.. ° '