SHOT BY FRIEND

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1922, Page 5

SHOT BY FRIEND

WOMAN IN THE CASE. CALLED BY TELEPHONE. London, August 24. “1 won’t bo long, mother,” said Gilbert Doughty, a cable operator, on leave [ from Mauritius, as he took up his hat ’ and left his home in Kensington after rising from his dinner table, in reply to a telephone message which hurriedly called him out. He was not long, but when he returned 20 minutes later, ho was staggering and faint from loss of blood. He collapsed in the porch, and later waq. removed to an infirmary, where he lies in a critical state. Meantime the corpse of H. B. Young, his friend, self-slain, had been removed from Wright’s Lane to Kensington. A letter signed “Viola,” was found in Young’s pocket—she was the girl to whom Young introduced Doughty—and contained the phrase,. “You know whom I like.” Young was a resident of Streatham, and had motored to Kensington, where an eye witness of the tragedy saw the two men meet and engage in conversation. At first it seemed amicable. Then, angered. Young drew his revolver, and Doughty ran. Young fired and Doughty still retreated, staunching a wound. Young then turned his revolver on himself and fired. He dropped, mortally wounded.