FIVE SHOTS FIRED

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 18 December 1912, Page 5

FIVE SHOTS FIRED

. Dr Scott deposed to receiving^ telephone message last -evening", and in resporisa he proceeded to a spot about one hundred yards from the entrance to the racecourse. The man was dead at the time of his arrival. The girl died ten minutes afterwards. His examination of the .bodies revealed the fact that the man jiad been shot in two places, one bullet penetrating the stomach, whiles the other went through the heart and passed out at the shoulder 'blade. The girl was shot in three places. The f first was a flesh ■wound on the left arm, the second, was a shot through the right (side, the 'bullet coming out on the left side; and the third a shot on the left side aibout the level of the "heart. The shots were fired at the girl at close quarters, as indicated by the. black marks on the girl's clothing. Th!e shots appeared to have been fired deliberately, as neither were from the front. It seemed as if the two deceased had been sitting side by side when the shots were fired. It was almost impossible for the wounds on the girl to have been self-inflict-ed. *

Charles Garside gave evidence as to seeing the two • deceased walking towards the railway station, whilst he was on his way to the racecourse. On, his return he noticed two forms on the ground aJbout three chains distant from where he first saw them. "* John. Conder, carrier, corroborated the evidence of the last witness.