FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1676, 5 April 1886, Page 2

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

(l SR JNITED. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Saturday. , So far as. can] be aacer tained, th^wrr cunistancas appear to be as f oiliest*— Edward Fuller,* a' youngs man, resided .with his brother-in-law, Mr Jenkins, builder, m King-street, Archill. ¥ He was a labourer, and worked m some.p% th* brickyards. He left town, about' a yeshr and a half ago for Kaipara, and returned to Auckland at Christmas, since which time he, live^vwjthyihw vbfother-in-law. Emily Mary Keeling, the victim ;of the tragedy, was seventeen years of ;age. Fuller,: "apparently, was madly m love with her. and When she was only fifteen yearsfpf age, or rather more than two year* ago, he in&de i proposals fo hVr v parents to marry "ter. Miss* Keeling v however, did not reciprocate his passion, and, indeed, tried to avoid him; although he endeavoured constantly to meet her. Last evening she" v/kt on her way to the Bible class meeting 1 at the Alexandrastreet Church, when she was met < by Fuller at the corner of King and SfanJ^ streets. What conversation passed Between them is not known, - for it . yfsß almost momentarily that he seized her by the arm and. discharged two shots from a small six-chambered bull-doc revolver into her breast. . The aotual firing was not seen by anyone, but the reports were heard by, several persons, including Miss Burgess f ( who Had just paissettjthem) »nH Mr Thomar, a storekeeper, f wh^res!dM m tliei vicinity. The bullets entered her breast, and she' , was only able to run across the road to Mr Thomas. shop, when she fell tainting on the doorstep. Medical assistance was at once sent tor, but the poor girl died within an hqur of being shot. Fuller, with sonie\ insane idea of escape possibly m his mind, ran at f ull' Speed toward Brisbaflt»-9treet, th# corner of which he turned, and at ,jhp , side of Mr George Dearness' house de> .liberaiely shot himself through th* mouth, and fell dead instantaneously as already " 'stated/ Mr Jenkins and . Mr Keeling reside m Kini^-street, only one house dividing . them. . . It . was, at the corner of King and Stanley-streetsj jusfc opposite Mr Thomas' grooery— atoGe» that the girl . was shot. It was pretty dark at the time, but not so dark as to prevent passers-byj ojjs'erying tho two forms. Miss :Burgesß;-is*distinct m her affirmation '4hat Miss/Keeling endeavoured to pass Fuller, that he prevented her, and grasped herfferm, and just after she passed, she heard the two shots .fired m rapid succession, and the ,screans'6f Miss Keeling,- who was- then runding tqward Mr Thomas' stored Jtfter the murder, a boy named Arthur Shanaghan. eleven years of age, who resides with his parents m Stanley-street,, saw Fuller run past toward Brisbane-street, and observed him turn the corner;: and just then he heard the report. of a shot. He|r»n to the place, w.hich was only some SO' or 60* yards distant, ifiit under the wall of Mr Stanton's* house h» saw Fuller lying on his face and bleeding* The deceased lay almost face downard In his right h^ndhe held 'a«ilevdlv4r under his right side, with his thumb, not his finger, on the trigger guard. Th« bullet had been fired into hisimduth^And lodged m the nape of his ntck, a'lftu» to the left side. Death must have been instantaneous. The body was removed to Mr Jenkins' house, where the 1 fearful spectacle nearly, paralysed Mrs Jenkins, sister of deceased, and the membersvof the family.