CUTTING IT OUT.
"IT'S SPEED THAT KILLS."
A SUICIDE'S END. [By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, Juno 14. At the inquest on Speed (not Steed), Clinton gave evidence that deceased ordered him to clean the mud off Ids boots. Ho refused, and Speed then asked him to have a drink. He replied that he would not after the insults ho had received. The shooting followed. The publican whom Speed stayed with deposed that since .May 28th, Speed spent the greater part of a cheque for £lO9, drawing ; onetimes £3O a day. His effects included & passago ticket to England by a steamer which sailed on Saturday. A verdict of suicide was returned.
Clinton, a cab-driver, who arrived in Sydney from Melbourne on June 10th, was talking to the barman in a hotel, when he was shot, though not seriously, by Speed, who afterwards turned the revolver on himself.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 5
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151CUTTING IT OUT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 34, 14 June 1913, Page 5
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