MURDER AND SUICIDE.
JEALOUSY THE CAUSE. AFTER-PICTURES TRAGEDY, Press Association Electric Telegraph -Copyrighi (Received Tuesday, 10.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. George Walker (27) and Thelma Hamrncll (18) were shot dead outside the latter’s home at Ashfield after 'their return from the pictures. The fatal shots were fired by William Gordon Fuller (24), of Croydon, who afterwards fatally wounded himself. Walker was a cook and had a ticket for the steampr Moeraki in his pocket. In Fuller ’s possession was a New Zealand passport and also a photograph of himself in a marine officbf’s" uniform. The girl’s .parents, stated that she ,and Fuller recently quarrelled. Joalousy is believed to have been!the motive of the crime. •
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 April 1927, Page 5
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