A GIRL SHOT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8738, 12 February 1907, Page 2

A GIRL SHOT.

Jealousy the Cause. Per Pi ess Association Wellington, February 13. About' C. 30 this- morning Claude Paget, a carpenter, aged 25, shot dead Lena Pearle Axup, aged 17, who resided with her mother at 93 AbelSmith street. Jealousy is alleged to be the cause. Paget fired three shots from a revolver at the girl, the fatal one taking effect behind the left ear, another buried itself in a window sash, while a third went into the floor.

Later Particulars. Claude Paget was arrested this morning and charged with the murder of Eleanor Pearl Axup. The girl, who was 17 years of age, was|fatally shot in the diningroom of her mother’s Louse, Abel Smith street, shortly after G o’clock and she died shortly after 7. Paget had been keeping company with Miss Axup. This morning Mrs Axup, on going into the kitchen of her house, found Paget there. She asked him what he was doing and ho said he wanted to see Ellen to say good-bye as he was going to ’Frisco. He was told Ellen was in the diningroom. Ho went there, and shortly after three revolver shots were heard. On entering the room Mrs Axnp 'saw her daughter lying on the floor bleeding from a bullet wound behind the car, and Paget, apparently unconscious, lying partly under her.

The police and dpetorswero scat for. Paget, when he recovered consciousness, said lie did not know what had happened. He bought the' revolver yesterday. He was charged at Court this morning and remanded until the 18th. He is ft carpenter about 30 years of ago, • [Miss Axup was the daughter of Mr Walter Axup, late ofllata. The family had only recently gone lo reside in Wellington, whore Mrs Axup kept a boarding-house.]