WELLINGTON SENSATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 810, 5 March 1910, Page 3

WELLINGTON SENSATION.

BAILIFF SHOOTS A BOARDER.

Wellington, March 4.

Robert Corkhill, a bailiff, aged about 60 years and wellknown in the city, went to a house in Pipitea Street, Wellliugton, this evening to eject some boarders.

One named Christopher Smith assaulted Corkhill, knocking him down. Corkhill got up and shot Smith dead with a revolver. Smith was a draper, married, and aged about 36. Smith is alleged to have turned Corkhill out of the house and to have knocked him down on the concrete footpath in a narrow side entrance. The scuffle rapidly developed into tragedy and Smith staggered from the gate with a bullet wound in the chest. He died before he could get back into the house.

Smith lay on the concrete footpath of the house unattended, his arms stretched out and life gone, while Corkhill walked up and down the street in an agitated manner fingering the revolver in his pocket. “He seemed to be a man with a sense of having been treated unjustly,” states an eyewitness.

Corkhill was afterwards arrested.

Mrs Tippler, representative of the Indian and Oriental Importing Depot, advertises that she has arrived in Foxton and is prepared to submit to patrons and couuoiseurs a splendid variety of the latest examples of Oriental hand-made goods, which may be seen at the residence of Mrs Woodroofe, Clyde St. The goods will also be on exhibition and for sale at the forthcoming Horticultural Show on the 9th and 10th.

In order to make room for a fresh consignment of goods, Mrs Hamer, Main Street, is holding a clearance sale of men’s and boys’ clothing, ladies dress materials, millinery and fancy goods, etc. All the above goods are marked at absolutely ‘‘give away” prices, and all those in need of summer goods should make a point of visiting there before the close of the sale.*