TRAGEDY AT WAIROA.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Press Association,
WAIROA, Jan. 27. An attempted murder and suicide is reported from Opauiti. . It appears that a young man named A. E. Stevens was escorting a young lady named Brownlee, from Mrs Stevens to the house of Mr T. Byrne, her
uncle, about 6 o’clock last night. While on the way, they were waylaid by a man named David Irwin, said to be from New South Wales, who fired with n revolver at Stevens wounding Mlilii in the arm, and knocking him off his horse. Invin then fired at Miss Brownlee, and her horse taking fright, started back 'to Stevens house. While Stevens was getting up Irwin fired at him again but missed, and then turned the revolver against himself, shooting himself under the chin and dying almost instantly. The --olice left for the scone but the details aro meagre.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2100, 28 January 1908, Page 3
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148TRAGEDY AT WAIROA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2100, 28 January 1908, Page 3
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