TAIHAPE TRAGEDY.
MAN FIRES AT PEOPLE. WITH !Aj
REVOLVER.
.then; shoots himself.
(Per Press Association.) TAIIIIAPH, yesterday. A: sensational tragedy occurred at Roijard's boarding-house last night?,, ■when a man named Albert Bennett,' formerly connected with the Stock {Department ais Perth, and lately cmployed with a .survey party in this colony, who had been drinking heav’ ly, pointed a revolver at several bystanders. Fortunately, the weapon missed fire.. Then, in the presence of a number of boarders, he turned the weapon upon himself, and shot himself through the heart.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1380, 15 February 1905, Page 2
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88TAIHAPE TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1380, 15 February 1905, Page 2
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