WAITRESS UNDER FIRE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 6

WAITRESS UNDER FIRE

GREYMOUIH TRAGEDY

EXCITING SCENE AT HOTEL

MAN SHOOTS HIMSELF. !-Er U'sl«2ra.iib..-i'ro6B Aesocie^on.) Croymouth, Jime 12. Shortly after noon .yesterday, the news spread quickly that a young man bad committed suicide fte a. yard at tha bjick of the Vont Qiiico Hotel, after an unsßccessffll attempt to shoot a- young woman with whom ho had been keeping company. Tho yaung man was Charles w, Hutchison, -agea 24, who -left tha Old Land a fe-w months ago in order So strike mt fat himself .in a countiy which ho believed offered better ptbsr peets than the congested labour roarkets of Scotland. Kb-brought with him a, card of retonime-iKlati»H frem tho \3f.UiA. The Friendship. H-6 sailed by til© -llei-nuera, and amongst fcHofl'-passengers was -Jeannio lodd, who was -coming out- te ter sister, Mra. Ai-taekk, ot Huiianga, The two bocanw iVi-endly, and wlioii they arrived in New Zealand tlioy agreed to corre-spol-id. Muiohison went to Wha.n.garci and Miss Todd to liuuang-a, hire about thrco weete a.£o HutcMsoii arrived her*.: a»d went- to board with Mrs. Arbupkl-B. Ho continued to keep company with Miss Todd, who had- secured employment as second cook -at tli-j |%6 Office Hotel. For sowo reason, howevor, his nttentitros becamo distasteful, and lie was in formed on Saturday last that Miss Todd, woujd havo no more to. do with him.. He^ telegraphed to her on. tho Wedi)f-sdav following: asking her to 6« out to Rm-ia-nga- and. see him, and sha wrote irf reply/ ivaniiiig him hot to earn, to the hotei looking far Jiejr. Oe the fo-llo\ving day ho - gave. Mrs. Arbuefcio notice, saying-that ho Was goijig to Wanga-nui) Ho, Ijoivever, caiue rat© town, and w<ifrt into -a local ironmonger's shop and jdircSiawd a revolver, and ammunition. The Shooting. Hutchison then weiit- to the hotel and asked to see. tho grii. . When sho ap-pearod-ho elimv the rovoK'c'f and pointed it a t hor. She- at mvo seized Ws a;ms, and screaitteS lotidly, miinaging, lueaiisvhiJc.j keep eirt- of tlio way "of two slwts wliidi w-ero fired at -hoi', lidg-e, an employee' in tho' hotel, hearing tho sciean.s, vtoshed out and dragged tho girl away from Hutchison.; who- then, turned tho. revolver on Edgp, and ■« bullet just .missed Ms head. Kdgo then ®a-iv Hutchison place tho . revolver against his tempte and fire, lie.was removed to the Hospital, where his died. • ' The Inquest. An inquest- was held this afternoon. J®amiie Todd described tlio relations between herself and deceased. On Smiday last, just opposite the Cobden deceased had said, thai if sho gave him up he would throw her into tiio river; Witness then «aid that she would not give him Up, but on Sunday night-, after getting back to tho.. hotel, she again told-him that she did not want to see him again. She had received a letter -on Wednesday asking her to look -ever w-lm-t ha 4 taken place, and on Saturday evening she received a telegram. Yesterday .morniiig, shortly after r.o.oiv, deceased -called at the hotel, aiul she toM one of the- girls to toil iiim that it was liei 1 /'day -out." Sho then di'seribed. the shoe ting, and how sii-e- had eaught liins by t-ilo wrist and evaded two shots. Edge., the porter, caaio on tho scene, and deceased fired one shot at him. Isflge then caught hold of witness, and deceased fired two more Shots, akni-tig .straight, a-; BiJge. Witness was takan into the hotel, and did net see deceased fire at ■hiasclf. Hob' rfc Edge, pixrter a;fc tho hotel, said that yesterday, about l'i o'clock, bo iuH deceased' ill Taimii Street Ho tlioiight that looked a bit strange. 0» getting back ta the hotel he heard screams, and-,' looking through tho o-ffice- wiudoiV, he sftw d'Seeascd in the yard,. The girl had hold of beth his and in one (if decoascd's liflMils lie saw a revolver. On -seeing witness ho broke loose aaa .fired at hiin, rtjud a second shot ju.st graxed his lia-ir. th-ea tt-rned the .pistol on the girl again, and Witees'S dived iwuter 'his iirin and caitiibb licv. A .third shot w : y.s fired fatten fcieiialVy at the girl. It missed, and- the girl fainted-., but wiiness uwAaged to carry her into the officii. Pitiless again went to go into th® v.'ircl, and, as lie cpetie'.l the_ doiir, ho heard a sliytj and on looking .in the wosblKHise ho saw deceased Itiiig there. Witness thought that deceased had been raider the impression, that ho had shot tlio gia'l. The Coror.tr retnnied a wrdict of ■ouicidfe wltilo in an. abnormal state of mind. • Attention is drawn to the advertisement showing brief partwutow dl herd of pciHqree Holbfein-Fnes-an eat-t;e; also high-gr'aile- Holstein cows,, heifers, and wea'nere, whieli are bring- offered oil account of' Mrs* J, A- James-, at the FeiWl'®!? salfl yards ,<» 'fhursdsy • 'I'll-?' 9 pedistee cows and heifers iiicltitfed in tme catal-OKne have bwVn bred to Mali, the ifrii'jj-bred huil, whose dam, Spot *tth, ownf:d by the -s.unwed the vr-ry hig.il renoril in season 1511-12 of IG.OC3tK milk, yielding 733;|pib, butterfai; test, 4,5. Two of the betters have i.>eon bred to Kins Bills*, sire luiis Serfs Wild Bos» UdmesteA'd, tn« J*! prize^wianer; iianj, Bolland Qneeti'. This e-aff 5-s now und<-r semi-alncuil test, anu jief petfo'rni.a'nee for 2EH3 days up to Apl'U 10, was 14,00011.'. milk and SUfllb. estimated liUtteT. atid 6lio i$ tQ' -etill Ing remavkably well* sr0 i 'J OO voiin-ff bulls te bo Gffored, ones 4-yeaT-ol'd bull,.ltaj.ah, si-re van Tromp. The 10 hi-irh-grado H-olstnn cows and heifers, which -are Aucust-Se pto in opr Calvers, have ten bred to Kajsh, and are a vetv choice let. There nro nlso a. nawbe-r nf i«di : iree arid grade w'-an« lietfota 'o be offered,' and aa Mrs -Tames 1, a3 decided to go in for sheep jfaroil-nis, every 1-ot will be oifered without reserve. Sale starts at .12 o'clock noon. Gateteiws may lie obtained from th f auciioiicers, .M<.'j,rs, DakMy -and Co,-, Ltd., Palmeistiui North,