£9500 AWARDED

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160798, 4 November 1920, Page 5

£9500 AWARDED

TO WIDOW OF MURDERED ; y MAN j SEQUEL TO DUBLIN OUTRAGE. : f :T .Telegraph,—Press As^-Gb^xj^t.'« Australian, and NrZ. ‘Cable Xesbciatibn. • Received November 4, 10 aim. - - . LONDON,. S. The widow of -Ffaiik Brbifice lit® "Seen " Uwarfibd, S9SOO compehsatibh. : ’§lfe ? .Claimed J23.000 on behalf ,‘bf RerseM, her and danghter, Kirt-The Son’s’knd ; ;lhk daughter's -claims were di&llbWed. • The above case arose as a result of ihe shooting in ’Dublin at the end bfOnly of. Mr Frank. B cOoke (fchalrman the Dublin and South-Eastern Rail-; .Way Company). He was chatting with ;Mr ..'lottbn, railway manager, in the' hoard room of the. company, when ap i krmed -party ’ejqtfped, tpe Tpom apd 'fired. volley, and half of Mr .Flrboke’s. hyad *-hot away. (Hie.three assassins, .ft raped unrecognised. One bullet hit; a typewriter which a lady secretary ’ Vbs wbrkihg in ah hdjbiiing Tobih. Mn \ Cbtton dived Under ‘tlie table and , scaped. Mr Brooke had a loaded T fiVe-; ; ihambered revolver in his breaat-p o cket, | nit the tturdereru eurered add 'acted: too quickly for 'biinfi to nee it. . Mr; Rrooke was habitually accompanied, hy - :fc detective. The jury at .the inquest! ledared that the murder was premeditated and expressed abhorrence of the. .Irime. ‘