DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 72, 14 August 1914, Page 4

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

ATTEMPTED MUBDER AND SUICIDE. % Telegraph.—Press Association. ....... ' Wellington, Last Night. William Mullins, an elderly man a farm laborer by occupation, shot his wife this evening at a house in Clyde Quay, where the pair rented a flaJt, the woman keeping some boarders. They have not been long out from England and Mullins, who is said to be weakminded, has not had much work since his arrival. His wife constantly urged him to seek* employment, and to-day he secured work at Makara, He was leaving home 'this evening to go to this work, and Mrs Mullins went.to the dour to say goodbye. Mullins suddenly turned on the woman, produced a email revolver and fired two shots, both ot which struck her in the forehead, biio made her way into a room occupied by a woman boarder, and Mullins . followed, tiring a third shot at his wife, but without effect, so far as is known '*t present. Mullins then rushed down stairs and shot himself. Both are now in hospital in a critical condition.