TRAGEDIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14151, 10 March 1910, Page 5

TRAGEDIES.

LITTLE GIRL FATALLY SHOT. iFks-s Asaociaticii-Br Telegraph-Copyright ADELAIDE, March 8 A Portuguese named Bonello, living at Nurioopta, jealous of the attachment of a girl, twelve years old, named Norma Plush, for another person, fired an ineffective shot while the child was reading. Then after a struggle with the mother, fired a second shot which, proved fatal. He was arrested. INQUEST ON MRS DAY. MELBOURNE, March 9. At the inquest on the- body of Mrs Day a letter from her, addressed to the Chief Commissioner of Police, was read in which she accused her husband of wrong-doing with her step-sister. She intimated her intention of putting an end to the condition of things, adding : '' Some people would say she was mad." Ross "Woodward, Mrs Day's stepsister, admitted being in love with Day. She stated that on the night of the lire deceased awoke her and led J her into the dining-room apparently ! trying to throw her on the fire. j A verdict that deceased was mentally i unsound was returned. j Day has been discharged from the j ' police force for Joining in the najnr of bis brother because he was over the regulation age. " ' ! ATTEMPTED MURDER—SUICIDE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 9. Jas. Fredk. Trenprove, a. casual labourer, residing in Queen street, Sydenham, committed suicide at his house : this morning by cutting his throat ! with a razor after he had made an attempt to murder his wife with a ; tomahawk. .It appears that Trengrove for some tipie past had not lived at all happily with liis wife. He went home drunk on Saturday night and created a disturbance. The police were sent for but they could not do anything in the matter. Yesterday Mrs Trengrove went to Court anil instituted ipro- ■ ceedings for a summary separation order and this morning it is stated another quarrel ensued. She informed her husband of her intention to apply for an order, whereupon he became violent, picked up a small tomahawk and struck her a blow with the edge on the back of the head. She was knocked down but a little later ' recovered sufficiently to run out on to ' the street when she began screaming "murder." A young man immediately informed Constable (folding of the trouble and the police hurried to the house. On entering they found Trengrove lying in the passage with his tvnat cut and a razor beside him. , Trengrove was nil but dead. A rre-'i-I cal man found Trengrove alive, hut he I died shortly after. Mrs Trengrove I was attended to fty neighbours. Her condition as far as can be gathered it "ot tlioun-ht to he serious. Trengrove's body was removed to the morgue where an inauiest- was ooened. Sereeant Reiner stated +ln+, decas<=d was of intemnerate habits and lived v»ry unhnr>pily with his wife, who had complained witues3 of her husband's cruelty. About five minutes past ten this morning he viewed house and fcund the nan with hi* throat cut. Constable Gelding corrobora+ed this. Witness that the bl n w received bv Ti >fv nnrnvo ]<:*-» >,pr the street, but her husband did not W T, '» adi'n'vip"'! till Tr,m, r ™-. l,„ d j sufficiently recovered to give evidence.