Murderer at Bay.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 179, 6 August 1901, Page 3

Murderer at B ay.

SHOOTS TO AVOID CAPTURE. While a party of excursionists was driving near Southend about five o’clock on June 25th the coachman noticed two men and a woman standing in earnest conversation on a vacant piece of ground. Just at that moment one of the men produced a revolver and fired point-blank at the woman’s bead. The driver at once jumped off his box and went in pursuit, whereupon the men made off, leaving the woman lying where she fell. She died in a few minutes.

Several people took up the chase of her assailant, and after running about two miles he was finally cornered at the Grove, Southchurch. Seeing his pursuers close on him, he placed the revolver to his head and blew his brains out.

The woman, who was aboht thirty years of age, was married to her murderer, a man named Facer, two or three years ago, under the impression that he was a single man, and had two children by him. Both were Londoners. About six months ago she found that he had been previously married and had a wife living, whereupon she left him and went to live at “ Ellerby,” Honiton Road, Southend. Facer had several times threatened to shoot her.