A HASTINGS SENSATION.
HASTINGS, February 6. A man named Edward Masters a rabbiter, of Hastings, this morning shot his wife and then attempted to commit suicide. It* appears that the couple had been separated for some time. Masters met his wife at the train arriving here from Napier at noon. They began an altercation near the station, when Masters drew a revolver, and fired upon his wife, the bullet entering the upper and inner part of her right arm near the shoulder, and lodging near the left shoulder-blade. The man then fired three shots into tne air, and at last one at his head, the bullet entering into the skull r.bove the right ear. Ma.*ters is unconscious, and the eondmon of both man and wife is considered daugerous.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1905, Page 6
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128A HASTINGS SENSATION. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1905, Page 6
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