SHOT AT WIFE MISSES
SUICIDE F&LLOWS TRAGEDY AT SELWYN [Pee United Pesss Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, February 14. Henry Washbourne, aged thirty years, a farmer, shot himself dead at Selwyn last evening. Presumably lie had entered his wife’s bedroom and fired a gun at her as she lay in lied, but the shot missed and entered the wall. Washbourne is said to have suffered from depression. He had been separated from his wife for some time, but they were reconciled two months ago. There are four children, one a baby. Mrs Washbourne is twenty-eight years of age.
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Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 6
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95SHOT AT WIFE MISSES Evening Star, Issue 19790, 14 February 1928, Page 6
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