ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE AND A MOTHER-INLAW.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 3

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WIFE AND A MOTHER-IN-LAW.

A nouni/E murder and suicide was attempted on a recent Sunday afternoon in Iverson Road,- Brondesbury, London. A man named Leonard Harford, lodging at 116, Iverson Road, was seen hovering near the chapel which is situated in this road Just as the congregation were leaving it, and as his wife, from whom he has been separated for somo time back, was leaving the chapel with her mother, a Mrs Deveson, residing at 42, Iverson Koad, Harford fired a revolver at them : his wife being shot through the neck and his mothor-in-law through the breast. He then pointed the revolver at his own head, the bullet entering his mouth and coming out at the back of his head. The man was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, and his victims to the mother's, house. Slight hopes of recovery are entertained in each of the cases. It is supposed that his wife's applying for a judicial reparation was the causeof the outrage. During Sunday afternoon Harford recovered consciousness, but could make no definite statement, and the doctors refused to allow the wife and mother-in-law , to cay anything on account of their precarious condition. The wife used to be organist , at chapel, and during the time Ilarford was a teetotaller ho used to take j part in entertainments in connection with that place of worship. , '

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