INVERCARGILL TRAGEDY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1814, 29 July 1913, Page 6

INVERCARGILL TRAGEDY.

LOVETiS' QUARREL & SUICIDE. !By Telegraph.—Press Association.) 1 nvercargill, July 28. A tragedy which possessed some peculiar features was investigated by tho coroner (Mr. G. C'ruiekshank, S.M.) this evening. On Sunday afternoon a young man named John Cook, agpd 23, employed at tho Government railway workshops, was received at tho hospital suffering from a bullet wound in the head, and died an hour later. From the evidence given at the inquest, it appeared tliiit Cook had been on friendly terms with two girls named Irene Turner and Lottie Oosgrove. He met them on a Sunday afternoon at the house of an acquaintance named Fred. James Moss. There was a discussion as to which girl Cook preferred, and as Lottie Cosgrove informed Irene Turner that she loved Cook, matters grow complicated. Cook, however, declared hi? preference for Miss Twiner, but she waved him off, and Cook then told her: "It's you or no one," and pi-minced a revolver and pointed it (it her.' Miss Tuiner, however, seized both his hands and pushed the revolver away. , After further developments, however, Cook ' put the revolver to his own head and lilTll. Lengthy evidence was given in corroboration, of this account, and a verdict was returned that deceased committed suicide while of unsound mind.