SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 434, 4 January 1890, Page 6

SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.

SvoNEY pap 6l ' 3 report a dreadful murder at Upton’s Hotel, Willow Tree, Quirixdi. A man named Montgomery had for some months paying his attentions jo a domestic at the hotel, named Rosetta Bush, and had offered her marriage, but was refused repeatedly. On a recent morning at 5 o’clock he arrived at the hotel, but nobody noticed anything peculiar in the man’s manner. Early in the afternoon he drew a revolver and shot the girl through the back, the weapon being so close that the powder scorched her dress. The man fired again, the second shot passing through her head, and death was instantaneous. Immediately afterwards he shot himself through the l)6ad, death ensuing about two hours after. The revolver used was fully loaded, and cartridges were found loose in Montgomery’s pocket. Everything points to the fact that the deceased man had mur-, derous intentions towards the girl’s other admirers, but fortunately they were absent. A letter was found on Montgomery indicating that he would murder them, also giving his motives for the deed. He has also told Miss Bush that, if she did not marry him, be would prevent her marrying anyone else. After the murder the room presented a horrid appearance. Montgomery was by occupation a rouseabout on Andrew Loder’s Seven-mile Station, and was a steady, industrious man. The girl Bush is said to be the daughter of a fettler at Doughboy Hollow.