Sweetheart Wounded.
LOVER TAKES OWN LIFE. CAUSE OF OUTRACE UNKNOWN. iEt Eliotbio Tbmgbaph—Oopybight] [UnITBD PrEBS ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, May 17. Another tragedy occurred, this time at Alexandria. Charles Webber, a ship's painter, shot his sweetheart, Lottie Heatley, a domestic servant, and then shot himself. Webber is dead. Miss Heatley walked a mile and a half to her mother's house, with three wounds in her head. She has been sent to a hospital, and her condition is
serious. The cause of the outrage is unknown.
WHERE THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED. COUPLE APPARENTLY DEYOTED (Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, May 18. Heatley's employer, Dean, was unaware of the tragedy till the police arrived and found Webber's body in Miss Heatley's room. The couple were apparently devoted. The cause is a mystery.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 22, 18 May 1914, Page 5
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126Sweetheart Wounded. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 22, 18 May 1914, Page 5
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