LATEST AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2704, 6 March 1924, Page 1

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND

SUICIDE

Brisbane, March 3

While Nurse Elsie Newlon and Walter William Cray were on llieir way (<» church at Maryborough lasi evening they noticed that they were, followed by a man named Henry Paid, who later addressed Miss Newton, telling her lie desired a few words with her. Cray stepped aside and without warning Paid drew a revolver. tired one shot, striking .Miss Newton in the right eye and allot Inn- knocking out three of her teeth. She fell .and Paid then fired three shots at his own forehead, only causing slight injuries. With, blood streaming from his face, Eahl l.av alongside tlit* girl and said, “1 love yon. 1 have done for myself.” Cray rushed to the girl’s assistance and conveyed her to the hospital Paid meanwhile escaped. The police followed him to a hoarding bouse, where he barricaded himself in a room. The police forced the door and found Paid before the wardrobe culling his throat. He was rushed and knocked down, but died in a Lew minutes. Miss Newlon is expected to re cover, but the sight of her eye is perm a nent I y desf royed. A letter was found in Paid's pocket addresser! “To whom it may concern.'' It gave a motive for his his action and staled that he was perfectly sane, lie was a married man with three children.