SHOOTING TRAGEDY
SYDNEY, August 7. A shooting tragedy occurred at Wooloomooloo to-day*} William Joseph Donne and his wife had been living apart during tile past few days. His wife went to-day to the shop where Donne was employed as a butcher's salesman, and the couple were talking together quietly outside when Donne fell as the result of a shot, and expired immediately.
His wife has been charged with murder. At present nobody has been found who actually saw the revolver fired. August 8.
Mrs Donne declares that she did not intend to shoot, but only to frighten her husband. Besides three loaded cartridges the revolver contained two blank ones filled with soap.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 23
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112SHOOTING TRAGEDY Otago Witness, Issue 3100, 13 August 1913, Page 23
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