TRAGEDY IN A FLAT.
CARETAKER FOUND DEAD. WOMAN SENT TO HOSPITAL. UNREQUITED LOVE CASE. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Aug. 18, 9.10 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 18. Hearing four shots in a flat at Paddington occupied by Mrs. Dwyer, twenty other occupants rushed into her flat and saw her stagger out and fall downstairs. She had two bullet wounds in the chest and one in the wrist. Entering the flat they found Louis Martini, aged 5'5, caretaker of the building, dead with a bullet wound in his temple. Mrs. Dwyer was sent to hospital in a critical condition. It is believed that Martini suffered troin the delusion that Mrs. Dwyer cared for him, that he found otherwise, and attempted to murder her, and then committed suicide.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1925, Page 7
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