A BARROOM TRAGEDY
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND * SUICIDE. (By Telegraph.—PrcM Association.—Copyright). SYdS’EV. March 7. Received March 8. 3 ".10 a.m. Edgar Alfred Hatton, a bookmaker, and a young woman, after a drive in a' taxi, entered the bar of a hotel in the city.' The couple were having a drink when Hatton is alleged, to have drawn a revolver and fired at the woman, wounding her in the left breast. Me then fired twice at himself, the bullets entering his head. Hatton is in a serious condition. The woman gave the name of Violet Coghlan. '■
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Southland Times, Issue 17289, 8 March 1913, Page 6
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94A BARROOM TRAGEDY Southland Times, Issue 17289, 8 March 1913, Page 6
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