TRAGEDY AT TAKENO.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2669, 26 October 1882, Page 3

TRAGEDY AT TAKENO.

[fume association tklbgbam.) AUCKLAND, October 26 At a quarter to five this morning, Albert Edward Long, aged nineteen, residing at Faksno, shot his father, Biohard Dickson Long, aged fifty-three, but not fatally. Ihe son afterwards shot himself; the wound it expected to be fatal. Tho supposed cause is money matters. Later.

The following particulars of the tragedy at Fakeno have been received A respectable gentleman named Long, residing with an equally respectably family named Adams, had a son who has been prodigal, and done as ho liked. He returned to his father about a week ago from Auckland and Tauranga, where it is reported he had spent a considerable sum of money. His manner since his return has been sullen and moody, but no one suspected that ho contemplated the dreadful deed which occur 'ed early this morning. Ho got a revolver while his father was asleep, and putting it beside hi* ear, shot him through the head, the ball passing ]ast below the brain. He then shot himself through the head, in front of the ear. Both are still alive, bnt in a critical state. Two doctors are attending them. Much sympathy is expressed in the district, Long being known as a kind gentleman, and bnt recently from London, Tho doctors believe there is hope of the father’s recovery, but not so of the son’s.