CHARGED WITH MURDER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2442, 22 April 1915, Page 6

CHARGED WITH MURDER

THE NAPIER. SOUTH TRAGEDY. ißy Telegraph.—Pre?p Association.l Napier, April 21. An inquest concerning the death of Walter Albert West, who died on March 5, the result of bullet wounds inflicted bv Alice Parkinson in a shooting atfra.v at Napier South, was held to°lav. Parkinson, who attempted to take her own life, bad only just recovered sufficiently to give evidence. The statements of witnesses went to show tiiat deceased and Parkinson had been oil terms of intimacy. The woman met deceased on the evening of March 2, and they went on to a vacant section, shots being heard immediately afterwards. West never recovered consciousness. The Coroner returned a verdict that ■\\esl died as the result of wounds intentionally inflicted by Alice Parkinson by means of a revolver. Pnrkiftfii cbnrjed with juurde: jad femaajM.. liil_ Jiomsi _

MOKE RECRUITS

YESTERDAY'S REGISTRATIONS

The following men woro registered yesterday in Wellington for enrolment in future reinforcements:—

Wm. John Stevens, driver, Wellington.

Geoffrey Hugh Baker, commcrcial traveller, Wellington. Wm. Charles Dobbinson, horsebreaker, Wellington. Edward Dennehy, Lower Hutt. Sidney Noiman Stratton, plumber, Lower Hutt.

Wm. Moran Connell, farm hand Wellington. John Hood, bootmaker, Wellington. Frederick Christopher Benfield, chef. Wellington. Douglas Grey, labourer, Newtown. John Feason Hursthouse, dentist, New Plymouth.

Wm. James Cunningham, clerk and typist, Brooklyn. John Rees, clerk, Wellington. Arthur Shury Penlington, carpenter, Wellington. Jamos Courtney, clerk, Newtown. Henry Toner, clerk, Wellington. John Charles Ralph Fabian, «urveyor's assistant, Wellington.