THE GISBORNE TRAGEDY.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17077, 14 April 1927, Page 8

THE GISBORNE TRAGEDY.

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association)

.GISBORNE, Thursday. The inquest on the Tirini Street tragedy was resumed this morning. Henry John Langlands, continuing ■h'iS 'evidence, stated that two lirearms had been in Nowell's room for three weeks. Nowell appeared wild and upset on the night he went out to the station to get them.' Questioned by the coroner regarding the nature of Nowell's brooding, witness said the fact that the girl was out of his reach was ever in his mind. Knowing that Nowell was of a rather peculiar temperament, witness.took him for a drive on the day oC the wedding, thinking he might imake a fool of himself. He did not want him to know that Miss Bennett was being

married. ■ The coroner said: " I am satisfied that while the man Nowell meant to kill he made a big mistake, and slew lan innocent, unoffending woman, He was labouring under stress and mental agony, hut it remains that he meant to slay a woman with whom he had been infatuated, and by whom he was •repulsed. Sympathy must go out to Mr Pettit and his children. I And that ' Queenic Eleanor Pettit died from gun- ' shot wounds from a gun fired by Nowell, and that George Edward Nowell •died from gunshot wounds sclf-inflict-■■led while suffering a temporary mental breakdown.