TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2038, 7 October 1919, Page 3

TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON.

MADMAN KILLS CONSTABLE. SETS FIRE TO HOUSE. AND COMMITS SUICIDE. Wellington, Last Night. To-night a man named Alexander A spin, a waterside worker, tried to enter the premise* in Brook Street occupied by bis former wife, who had divorced him about.a year ago. The woman escaped to a neighbour, and summoned Constable Dudding. When Dudding arrived at the house be looked through the kitchen window, when a shot was tired from within, and the constable fell, the bullet going through (he right eye. Aspiti then set tire to the house. A

posse <>L' police and the tire brigade readied the scene shortly after, and then a second shot was hoard. Tin; 1 muse was entered, and Aspin found in a dying condition with a Colt automatic revolver lying alongside him. The brigade extinguished the lire, and Aspin and Const aide .Duding were removed to the hospital, where they both died. Budding was a yo.ung married man with no children, and hailed from the Auckland district. Aspin, who was 48 years of age, and a Norwegian, attempted to commit suicide about twelve months ago.