MURDERED BY LOVER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 781, 30 September 1929, Page 9

MURDERED BY LOVER

MAN’S DESPERATE CRIME AT SYDNEY CONSTABLE TWICE SHOT (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Sunday. A girl was brutally murdered and her lover committed suicide last evening at Rose Bay. Dorothy Cooper, aged 19, a resident of M osman, with a girl friend, hired a taxi in the city and drove to a residence at Rose Bay. where a party was being held. Miss Cooper’s lover, Angus Horton, aged 25, not Charles Houston, as previously cabled, followed the two girls in another taxi. He knocked at the door of the house they had entered and inquired for Miss Cooper. He was invited to go inside. The man drew two revolvers and exclaimed to Miss Cooper and her friend: “You have just one minute to live.” The girls shrieked. Then several revolver shots were heard by the other persons in the L-use. Miss Cooper fell to the ground dead. Her companion fainted. but was not wounded. FUSILLADE OF BULLETS Two policemen were hurneujo called from an adjoining election meeting. Pluckily then rushed into the room where the shooting had occurred. They were met with a fusillade of bullets, one of which passed through Constable Fox’s jaw and another through his overcoat. Fox’s companion escaped injury. The murdered girl’s assailant then turned a revolver upon himself, pressed the trigger and died without uttering a word. According to the driver of the taxi in which the dead man had gone to Rose Bay he seemed to be annoyed because he thought his sweetheart had gone to the party with another young man. But he made no mention of his intention of killing anybody.