A REMARKABLE TRAGEDY.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151033, 26 July 1919, Page 5

A REMARKABLE TRAGEDY.

JEALOUS HUSBAND 4ND LODGERS.

MURDER AND SUICIDE

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

• (Received July 25, 8.55 p.m ) London, July,24. A remarkable shooting case at Kenmngton resulted in the death of Thomas Barker, a horse dealer, and his wife and the serious wounding of Private Perry and Gunner Goodson, two Australians.

_ The wife had left Barker owing to her husband's insane jealousy. Perry •and Goodspn were, her lodgers. Mr^ barker and^the Australians were chatting when Barker crept in in stockinged feet and flourished a revolver, crying, He fired, killing his wffe, shooting Perry in the. neck, and Goodson in the Rhest Barker escaped to the garden and shot himself in the "temple. Goodson s condition is precarious, hut that of Perry is favourable