HASTINGS TRAGEDY.
MAI* SHOOTS HIS WIFE.
(Per Press Association.) Hastings, last night. I man named Edward Masters, a rabbi!: of Hastings, shot hie wife and then attempted suicide. The pair had been separated for some time. He met his wife I at the tram arriving here from Napier at .- Tho y be B an an altercation near the station, when ho drew a revolver and fired at his wife. The bullet entered the upper and inner part of the right arm near the shoulder, lodging ueac tho loft shoulder blado. Tho man then fired three shots into tbo air and tho last ouo at his head, tho ballet entering into his skull above tbo arn h L,° ar ' - He 18 uncon scious, and both ore m a serious state.
««-„ . . Napier, last night. Masters and his wife had gone to Hastings by the 11.20 train from Napier° and shortly after arrival at Hastings, while passing down Avenue Roak, the nfan drew out a revolver and fired twice at his wife one bullet striking her on the right near the shoulder and tho other in the b ? ck ’ He then turned the revolver on' imsalf, the bullet grazing his temple. The
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1373, 7 February 1905, Page 2
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199HASTINGS TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1373, 7 February 1905, Page 2
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