TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON.
MADMAN KILLS CONSTABLE. SETS FIRE TO HOUSE AND COMMITS SUICIDE. On Monday a man named Alexander Aspin, a waterside worker, tried to enter tho premises in Brook Street occupied by his former wife, who had divorced him about a year ago. The woman escaped to a neighbour, and summoned Constable Duckling. When Dudding arrived at the .house he looked through the kitchen window, when a shot was iired from within, ami the constable fell, the bullet going through the right eve. Aspin then set fire to the house. A posse of police and the fire brigade reached the scene shortly after, and then a second shot was heard. Tho house was entered, and Aspin found in a dying condition with a Colt revolver lying alongside him. The brigade extinguished the fire, and Aspin and Constable Dudding were removed to the hospital, where they both died. Dudding was a young married man with' no children, and hailed from the Auckland district. Aspin, who was 43 years of age, and a Norwegian, attempted to commit suicide about twelve months ago.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 8 October 1919, Page 3
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181TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 8 October 1919, Page 3
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