Sydney Sensation.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 37, 5 June 1914, Page 5

Sydney Sensation.

LOVE TURNED TO HATE. WOMAN SHOT HER PARAMOUR. [Bt Elbotkto Telegraph— Cop* bight' [United Press Abbooiatton.l Sydney’, June 4. Alice Mabel Rankin wag acquitted on a charge of wounding; Irvine with intent, to murder. Evidence was given that Irvine was separated from his wife. Certain relations had existed between him and Rankin for a considerable time. Rankin gave evidence that she did not know Irvine was married. After deceiving her, he promised to marry her. She prepared for the wedding, and he lent her money. Irvine denied the promise of marriage, and declared that Rankin had attempted to extort money. Rankin’s counsel pleaded that at the time of the shooting she was laboring under an insane impulse. The Judge, in a scathing summingup, characterised Irvine as a blackguard, and even worse, but his bad conduct had not justified the shooting. If the jury considered the ac-* cused’s mind at the time of the shooting was not under proper control they would acquit her. A cablegram on March 7 stated that a young woman named Alice Mabol Rankin, formerly a barmaid, walked into Hogan’s tailoring establishment in King street and fired four shots at an employee, Gilbert Irvine, two striking him. She then fired two shots into her own breast. The affair was the outcome of jealousy, arising out of Irvine’s recent marriage.