MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1295, 24 December 1886, Page 3

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

A borriWe, tragedy was enacted on November. 16, at" Black Hango, about six miles from .Allmry on tho Jiudera road. An elderly man name I I’lii Ip Vibert,-keeper of a small wayside store, deliberately shot his wife dead, and then attempted to muidera man named Matthew Southern, and afterwards committed suicide. Vibert and hiswife,- it seems, had been living very unhappily together for years, and some time ago he was sentenced to a term of twelve months imprisonment for striking her with a bottle. Vibert had occasionally indulged in heavy debauches, during which periods he was continually quarrelling with the woman about money matters, and had often been heard to threaten to shoot her. He was convicted on a charge of selling colonial wine without a license about three months ago. and tho fine not being paid he was sent to gaol, and had only been released a few weeks. On his return homo he frequently quarrelled with the woman about some money which he knew his wite possessed, also on account of her friendliness towards Matthew Southern. It appeared Vibert catered-his wife’s bedroom, and in presence of a woman named Jugger, who was nursing Mrs Vibert, asked his wife when she was going away?” His wife replied, “ i dont know ; but I think. I’ll be only a day h»re ” On this Vibert drew a revolver from his si ie, and shot his wife in the head. Mrs Jireger ran from the room in terror, and told Matthew Southern what had happened . Southern, who had heard the pistol shot, ran at once to the house, and found Vibert in the bedroom Vibert immediately turned upon Southern and threatened him with the pistol. Southern seized a stick anti aimed a blow at Vibert. A struggle then took place between the two men for possession of the revolver, which had been k ocked out of VibrrtV hand, and, after some time, Vibert regained possession of the pistol. By ' this time the two men had in thenstruggle, got away from the bedroom into the'passage between the main building and.stable. The door of the stable being open, Southern succeeded, by an adroit movement when nearly exhausted, in forcing Vibert into the stale and closing the door upon him Southern ran to a neighbours for help but getting none he retured, and on his way back to tie house heard another pistol shot followed by loud moans. On looking into the stable ho saw Vibert lying on tho ground bleeding from a bullet wound in the head, the revolver lying beside him. Southern then went to Mrs Vibert, and saw she was quite dead, witli blood streaming from her face on the floor. The police were then communicltcfd with, and Vibert lived about a quarter of an hour after the constable arrived. It, notvc’ccr, a'so comes, out in evidence that Mrs Vibert was not the wife of Vibert, and tha(r-r~W, months ago she , had given Southern LIOO in gold. The jury found that “ the woman had been willfully and feloniously murdered by Philip Vibert and that Philip Vibert came to his death by a pistol wound, but by whom inflicted there was no evidence to sho iv.”