Sydney Tragedies.
(Per Press Association.) Sydney, April 17. The Manly tragedy was the outcome of unrequited love. The murderer, who name was Andrew Arkle, kept company with Collins for three years, and several times proposed marriage to her, but she refused Arkle. He persisted in bis attentions and frequent quarrels took place. The pair arranged to go to Manly, and it is supposed Arkle intended to press for a final answer to the marriage and premeditated the tragedy if the girl refused. After shooting the girl he evidently shot himself and dropped exhausted just as he reached the water's edge, where he lay for several hours in agony with a terrible wound in his breast. Arkle returned in December from New Zealand, where he had spent some time knocking about At the inquest on Mrs Down, a verdict of wilful murder against her husband was returned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 243, 18 April 1896, Page 2
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