LOVERS' TRAGEDY
YOUNG MAN SHOOTS HIS SWEETHEART AND THEN SUICIDES. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) • SYDNEY, September 28. John tßoache attempted to muxder lias. iswaetih.ea.rt, Gladys. McKenna. He aifiterwiards isuioided in a paddock near Orange. The igjLrtl was .shot in, the forehead. Roache liad two ibullet wounds in the head.
The revolver contained only one discharged cartridge. ' It- is supposed that Roache shot the girl MsKenna and inflicted a slight 'wound on ihiimself. He then went home, re-loaded. the weapon, and returned to the girl's 'side, where he fatally 'shot himself. The girl McKenna may recover.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10436, 29 September 1911, Page 5
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