DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
MAN SHOOTS HIS WIFE. ALSO FIEES AT ANOTHER WOMAN. THEN COMMITS SUICIDE.
XFer Press Association.) Ashburton, last night. At 7.30 this morning, as Mrs W. Burgess of Methveu and another woman wore driving into Methven from the hills in a trap, Mrs Burgess’ husband rode up and fired at his wife with a revolver, hitting her in tbe forehead. He abo fired at the other woman, but missed, and rode away. Mrs Burgess received medical attention and was brought into the Ashburton hospital. She is now in a precarious condition. Wm. Burgess, her husband,a man about 30, was afterwards found drowned in a waterhole.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, 28 February 1905, Page 2
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106DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, 28 February 1905, Page 2
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