DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 14 August 1914, Page 4

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. [Peb Press Association.] hv ellington, August 13. M illiam Mullins, an elderly man, a farm laborer by occupation, shot his wife this evening at a house in Clyde) Quay, where the pair rented a fiat, the woman keeping some boarders. They have not been long out from England, and Mullins, who is said to bo weakminded, has not had much work since his arrival. His wife constantly urged him to seek employment, and to-day he secured work at Makara. He was leaving home this evening to go to this work, and Mrs Mullins went to the door to say good-bye. Mullins suddenly turned on the woman, produced a small revolver and fired two shots, both of which struck her in the forehead. She made her way into a room occupied by a woman hoarder, and Mullins followed, firing a third shot at his wife,, but without effect, as far as is known at present. Mullins then rushed down stairs and shot himself. Both are now in hospital in a critical condition!.