LOVE TRAGEDY.

Otaki Mail, 31 January 1923, Page 4

LOVE TRAGEDY.

TROUBLE IN A BANK. Two men lie dead in Ihe basement ol Messrs Henry S. King and Co V B»uk at the corner of Ball Mall and Uaterloc place (says the London Observer, No vember 5), following, it is alleged. ; quarrel over a girl clerk employed at Hie bank, with whom both arc said t( have been iu love. jhe victims or rlic trauedy ate .at L. Lindsev, a cashier, anoui thirty, who had been employed iu the bank since ho was a boy. and a young clerk named Archibald Gray, about twenty-one. Ihfc tragedy occurred shortly after the bank had clo.-ed for but luc.-s ye lerday. Ciay had gone to the cloak room, and v....- i.. tnc act of washing ITtmfell. when Lindsey is said to have entered the room, in the basemen t of the bank, and draw tut; a revolver, Jired point blank, killing Gray instantly. Then lie turned the weapon on himself, and fell 'lead beside the body of the other clerk. When the shuts were heard the stall, •who were just preparing to leave, took no notice, nttiibutmg the noise to some freworks. Just afterwards, however, a clerk ran up 1 rota the basement, and gave the alarm. On going downstairs, they found both men lying dead, laudsey»s head, it is understood, hav.ug been practically blown away. It is understood that Lindsey ami Gray were l oth rivals for the affection of n girl clerk employed at the bank, whose rained, it is understood, is Ferguson. The gut had latterly shown a preference for Gray, and it is understood that they were to have become engaged. One of Lindsey’s ft birds told a representative of the Press ibat the dead man had inherited a substantial legacy on the death of his mother, and recently had displayed rather oaravagaut habits,- driving about in a motorcar and spending a good deal ot money on jewellery. He had been with the bam. about fifteen years. Constitutionally he was not very strong, and during the war he was in the Army Pay Corps, but had not to go to the front. He is .-aio to have been'somewhat strange in his manner since the death of his mother He is described by the manager as having been a quiet, hard-working fellow, and although it was known iu the bank that he was jealous of Gray, nothing had occurred dur ug business hours yes terdav to hint that, the relations between the two were strained. No one appears to have been aware that Lindsev- had a revolver in his possession.