A DISAPPOINTED LOVER SHOOTS HIMSELF.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 238, 21 January 1888, Page 3

A DISAPPOINTED LOVER SHOOTS HIMSELF.

A disappointed lover, named Harry Simpson, who recently returned from Broken Hill, Adelaide, attempted to commit suicide lately in one of the main streets of the cityHe had been keeping company with an attractive little dispenser of tea and coffee at a restaurant in Rundle-etreet, and while seeking his fortunes In Broken Hill, it appears that he received no letters from her, and on getting back to town he accused her of forgetting' him for another. She pleaded she had written to' him;-buthe rushed wildly out of the shop into a side street, and fired a six-shooter four of five times at himself. The firsb few shoti missed, but at last he winged himself in the arm and fell to the ground; shrieking, "She shall never have him." The wound is not dangerous, and 'now his inamorata threatens to " cut " Kirn.

The City Coroner (Mr H. Shiell, J.P. ) held an inquest at the Soudan- Hotel, Lower George-street, Sydney, on theremains of a< ; youhg girLnamed Sarah , Ann.Grahanii .who was! found defcd in a .well afc St. Leonards, i Deceased was nineteen years of . age,^ unmarried, a domestic, and had lived with a family named, Clar.kaon. (Mrs Clarkson; being her , sis.tejr), , «:ab „ . >Berry/§; f , road, , St f j ) L«QnardB J \»sN(^tJiing bitiftiwual-.ibad. 1 been • v pb^Fy*ai^Jjou| t ; ( pfp Ipfofr and she,, was >i'jaip}iie>nuKjJl*ppy ;,tem^ tieftiment. - The,^eU*n which.deceaeed.waar 'found mm. near .the kitchen, of. the hbusei and^ was; partly HQVtred,! there being aci opening about, 18 inches ,squ>re, w^thja. lid covering it. <t Dec^iased appears : to "jh»yfir< b«eri last seen alimat half. pa«b 9 o'clock ,6n. Sunday pighfc, a The? &IJM!&«mi&MM& \ ewrbbed fp^djuring %ieM^pnoQn^yri^M^ result thab her b<^y.wai,fouAd in :the well, ■ with the lid ; w:jw on^ hlngw) olowdii

: DecMslfr $& $iin Ifed^saf '% a ftrs '! on Saturday night that " she had a 'mind, to ; jump mto 1 ' thV.tfdl/Vrand^had used, similar expressions previously. , The r6asbn assigned was alleged by Mrs Salwey, to be thai she suffered- severely frpiri tbofch--aohe.' ilt subsequently, however, that .she had .been keeping,. company^ with a man named , Frank Chandler, ,an^l she was heard to ihrea'ten'to.dyow'n ljyerself if Chandler deceived li&'r. Tlie .pod^r was 'removed! to the N'ortU'Sydney Morgue by the pblice at Korth Shore, anc^ Dr. Bichler made an examination t of the body. He concluded death was due to asphyxia from drowning. '„ ^tn open v verdict, jpf "Found Drowned" was returned., ,