A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 171, 6 December 1912, Page 5

A MELBOURNE TRAGEDY.

A DRUNKEN ORGY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 5, 10,20 p.m. Melbourne, December 5. At the inquest on MaeGregor. or McCrindle. one of the guests testified that deceased refused to reveal his assailant's name when questioned at the hospital. though he admitted that he knew. Evidence showed that McCrindle was 24 years old, and a married man living apart from his wife. The evidence of a young woman who lived with the deceased showed that a girl informed witness that one of the guests was carrying a revolver. Witness asked Mcßindle at, the hospital who his assailant was. and he replied "The fellow with the revolver.-' The girl previously mentioned that she accompanied a man with a revolver to the pariy. She remarked to witness. 'T don't want Jack" (meaning the man with the revolver); '"I love Paddy" (meaning''McCrindle). The medical evidence was to the effect that there was no evidence and no indications of alcohol about deceased. The coroner returned an o;>en verdict. The partywas just an orgy :<>r drinking,-and it was the worst case ; n his ten years' experience. Several v'Uesses more or less suppressed the truth.

A Melbourne cablegram of November 16 states that peculiar circumstances surrounded the shooting of Robert McGregor at East Prahran. Festivities were being held at McGregor's house. During the evening a guest was ejected. Ringing at the front door bell in an early hour of the morning interrupted the proceedings. McGregor answered the door. When it was opened, a man standing on the footpath fired five shots from a revolver, two striking McGregor. He was removed to the hospital. Doctors failed to extract the bullets from the liver and stomach. McGregor refused to name his assailant. He subsequently died.