TRAGEDY AFTER FUNERAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 11

TRAGEDY AFTER FUNERAL

SON WOUNDS EXECUTOR ASSAILANT SHOT LONDON, June 12. Disappointment at the contents of his father's will is believed to be the explanation of a shooting affray at Newport, Isle of Wight, to-day, in' which a man Shot himself after wounding an executor.

After tiie funeral of Air. Charles Blading, his executor, Mr. Abraham Davies called o.i the dead /nan's son, Percy Brading, 43. of Drill Hall road, to inform him of the contents of his father's will.

According to Mr. Davies, Brading invited him into a back room. After a short' conversation, Brading produced a revolver from beneath a cushion on the sofa. The trigger was pressed, but the weapon mis-fired. Mr. Davies made for the back door, hut failed to get it open, and the revolver was fired again. This time a bullet struck Mr. Savies in the face. and, in his desperation, he jumped through a window, being badly cut by glass, and made his escape through the house next door by climbing over a wall. Mr. Davies was conveyed to the police station by a passing motorist, and later was taken to hospital, suffering from shock and loss of blood.

When the police arrived they found Blading dead on the sofa'. He 1 had a bullet wound in his forehead, and a, revolver was clasped in his hand. For'a time Brading assisted his father in a coal merchant's .business, but latterly there appeared to have been some estrangement, and it is understood that he had not benefited by his father's Will.