SHOT DEAD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 12

SHOT DEAD

BULLET THROUGH HEART NEWCASTLE TRAGEDY NEWCASTLE, March 30. Shot through the heart late this afternoon by a man who fired at him at point blank range while he slood in the back porch of the home of his half-sister al Steel street, Hamilton, Alfred William Wallace, l'-J, stumbled into the next house and died in three minutes. Later this evening, a man called at the Carrington police station, made a long statement, and was charged with having murdered Wallace. The scene of the shooting was a wooden semi-detached villa. In one section of it lived Ronald Henry Edwin Ohiuiiioii, :i telephonist, working in the lest ing room at the Newcastle Host Ollice, and his wife. The police say that there had been differences between Chaanon and his wife lor some time, and these led to a definite break. For a while they liv.ed' apai I. According lo the police. Mrs. Chanuou returned a few days ago and had been slaying with a Mrs. Kaufman in the house adjoining ChannonV, Wallace, who was a station hand on Milliiual station, Boomi, near (lalah. came to Newcastle in response to a message from Mrs. Cliannou. This afternoon, it is staled, Mrs. i 'haiiaon went into her husband's house io talk matters over, and Wallace, hearing heated words, went in to see what was happening. Wallace was standing on Ihe back porch, and Mrs. Chunnuii was in Ihe kitchen, jusl inside the door, when the shot was iired. A man who was very pale, and seemed agitated, suddenly came round the corner id' ihe wall. As soon as be saw Wallace there he pulled a rosolver from his pocket, and lired from a range of less than live feet. Not a word was spoken. Wallace reeled, clutched at his chest, and then- staggered into the other section of the house. At the door of the sit ting room he crumpled up, and fell face downwards on the carpet, dead.