LOVER'S RASH ACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1929, Page 7

LOVER'S RASH ACT.

Girl Brutally Murdered In Friend's Home. SUICIDE FOLLOWS. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A girl was brutally murdered and her lover committed suicide last evening at Rose Bay. Dorothy Cooper, aged 19, a resident of Mosman, with a girl friend, hired a taxi in the city and drove to a residence at Rose Bay, where a party was being held. Miss Cooper's lover's name was believed to have been Charles Houston, aged 25, but it was later announced that the man was Angus Horton. He followed the two girls in. another taxi. He knocked at the door of the house they had entered and inquired for Hiss Cooper. He was invited to go inside. The man drew two revolvers and exclaimed to Miss Cooper and her friend: "You have just one minute to live." The girls ehrieked- Then several revolver shots were heard by the other persons in the house. Miss Cooper fell to the ground dead. Her companion fainted, but was not wounded. Two policemen were hurriedly called from an adjoining election meeting. Pluckily they rushed into the room where the shooting had occurred. They were met with a fusillade of bullets, one of which passed through Constable Fox's jaw and another through his overcoat. Fox's companion escaped injury. The murdered girl's assailant then turned a revolver upon himself, pressed the trigger and died without uttering a word. According to the driver of the taxi in which the dead man had gone to Rose Bay he seemed to be annoyed because he thought his sweetheart had gone to the party with another young man. But he made no mention of his intention of killing anybody.