TRADEDY IN BRIGHTON.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5963, 14 July 1920, Page 2

TRADEDY IN BRIGHTON.

)f PEOPLE SHOT. [° e ONE VICTIM SUCCUMBS. "' A revolver figured prominently in a , /sensational scene which occurred in a house at itihe corner of Landcox-street j and Lockwood-avenue, Brighton, Vicp. tcria, the other afternoon, and three people, oMe of whom has since died, susftained iserions wlounds. Their /name* , r ™- William Homy Morris (45), .painter. ]7; Outer-creucfint, Brighton, gunshot ' [t wbund—dead. : Mrs Catherine Fidd (75), married: I' woman, three bullet wounds in chest am? ' s one (skin abrasion) over hight shoulder ~ —condition, herious. ( _ Mr s Edith Morris (43), daughter of . Mty Field aUd wife, of W. H. Morris, gun shot wound over right ear—condi'tion serious, but not critical. It appears that Morris nod been separated from his wife for about a month, land w|is, apparently, very bitter towaids her, oil account of the fact that she had been given the custody of their children, niter proceediings hold at • Brighton police court. It is .stated that, ■without warning, ho entered the kitchen 1 a: his motlrer-iii-lawr's hou.se at about. ' 3 p.m. Mrs Field was seated at the 1 table. Taking from his pocket a scvenwhambered 2fi-caJibrc revolver ho level- • J led it at Mrs Field and fired two shots, both of which penetrated her chest. Morris then went in search of his wife, and a second or two later two mora revover bulled were fired. 'Mrs Morris received both shots, oUe builiet going thtaigli the left arm, and the other Sltnking her behind the left shoulder. Hardly a moment had elapsed when he again turned upon the terrified modier-ir.-law aUd fired tiwo more shots. When a constable who was summoned arrived at the house, 'and entered one of the ;p>nt rooms, he found Mrs Hold lyittg on the bed bleeding from \foux wounds. She had ty.»cu. tarried there from the kitchen. Mrs Morris, ' was in the same room. Mr Bnshby, n j neighbour, 'cold the constable in 'another room Morris had locked himself I in. Bursting tho door ov>en, the latter ! found Morris sitting on the floor, with his back propped up against a single bed. Blood was oozing from a wbnnd in the temporal regioAi, and he wae unconscious. A packet of cartridges and ... - a revolver lay on tho floor. The re r " volver contained three discharged'shells, - and one "live ,, shell. '' . - '-.;-. Morris was employed as a painter at ■ the Newport railway workshops. '" ; ■;£