PARIS HOTEL TRAGEDY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 164, 2 July 1908, Page 4

PARIS HOTEL TRAGEDY

A WAITER KILLIOD.

SHOT ]IY A NEW ZICALANDEU.

L-oniLon papers to hand report u Paris hotel tragedy, in which a New Zealander was concerned, but which so far has not been mentioned ill cablegrams. ,' " The affair is a somewhat mysterious one A voting man named Thomas Shepherd Allen, son of -Mr. Willi:"" Shepherd Allen, ot Pinko, near 'Uianics, and formerly M.l.'. for Neweastle-nmler-Tyne. was staving at a hotel near the clue du Nord' and one night, without warning, he turned on a waiter named Jean t'ogau with a revolver, and shot him twice in the groin, t'ogan substi-, iiuenllv dying of his wounds. Cogan. after the first shot, bolted upstairs, but was pursued by Allen, who fired a third shot, striking Cogau on one ..[ his legs. Air. Allen scni-., was slaying at Chenille, in Stiillordsliire, and was telegraphed for. Young Allen, after tiring the shots, .sal in the hallway and allowed himself lo be arrested quietly. - Mn answer to questions, he calmly returned the extraordinary reply that C'o-

gun was not a waiter, but hi- (Allen's) broker in disguise, and Allen seemed to have the delusion that Cogan wanted to poison him. Young Allen was injured in a railway -accident, in England, and it is thought this all'ected his brain.