TRAGEDY AT A CHURCH.
Ohrisfcchurcb, July 12. A man, named Charles MacCuttcheon, was waiting for his bride at Lincoln Church at 11 to-day, when two detectives came on the scene and arrested him on a charge of forgery at Wellington. The detectives searched their prisoner, and having done so, consented to his retirement for a t ; me to a lavatory at the back of the church. A pistol report was then beard, and the detectives rushed to the spot, and found MacCuttcheon with a smoking revolver in his hand and a bullet wound in the centre of his forehead. They started to take him to Christchurch Hospital, but he died on the way.
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Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11678, 13 July 1906, Page 3
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113TRAGEDY AT A CHURCH. Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11678, 13 July 1906, Page 3
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