TRAGIC OCCURRENCE.
A terrible affair has hsppenee at Woosung, a few miles from Shanghai. Mr A. 0. Owen, the second officer of the steamer Patroclus, and Dr Yate, of the same vessel, were in a small boat, and the former was amusing himself by Bhooting at some birds with a revolver. The doctor was sitting |just in front of him, and Mr Owen held the weapon close to the doctor's head. Just as he fired, the doctor turned, apparently to Bee what effect the shot might take. The bullet entered the doctor's head. Mr Owen endeavored to extract it by the help of a knife, but failing to do so, he got into a state of terrible excitement, and before the seamen in the boat could see what he was about, he fired into his own forehead. The Bailors were about an hour before reaching their veßsel (which was about to sail for Europe), when the captain had both the wounded men taken to the hospital at Shanghai. The doctor died the same evening, and the second officer the next day. The jury found that the doctor was accidentally killed, and that the second officer destroyed himself in a fit of temporary insanity, Dr Yate was the son of well-known medical practitioner at the West End of London, and the officer was also the son of a doctor. The deceased had been great friends.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1116, 28 April 1880, Page 4
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