Senstion at Hobart
A EOMANTIC TEAGEDY. - (by electric telegraph.) HOBART, Oct 6. On© of the most sensational episodes that have occurred in the colony took place .shortly after five o'clock this afternoon, in which a young woman narued Eliza Brundle, aged 26, was the victim. The circumstances are so far surrounded in mystery, but there are peculiar tea* tures in the case which implicate a leadlag citizen, wir the person of Alderman : JVmptfr. - It appears that the alderman in ,<|B£6tion has had various assignations •^vith deceased, and shortly after five o'clock this evening took a walk with her an the Queen's Domain. The deceased, "who was of an exciteable nature, commenced to dwell on the. improprieties " -which had existed m the past, and ac- : cused her companion of jnisleadmg her. She 'then recalled promises he had made, , t and." dii" unsatisfactory responses being naade sank down on the ground, He at . once sent for medical assistance, which arrived m the person of Dr. Hardy, who, after examination of the woman, pro- ' Tiounced life extinct from, he supposed, leart disease. The body was then conveyed to the Hospital where it was received by Dr Scott. An inquest will "be hetd to-morrow, when some unpleasant relations are looked for.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 58, 1 November 1890, Page 3
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