A JEALOUS LOVER.
MURDERER’S DOUBLE LIFE. By Telegraph.— Press Assn.--Copyright. London, November 7. The inquest on the victim of the King’s Bank tragedy in which Lfiidsay Lindsey, a cashier, aged 30, shot dead Archibald Graj, a clerk, aged 21, and committed suicide, showed that Lindsey last year was leading a sort of Jekyll-Hyde life. While apparent* ly respectable he led a life of dissipation, arid at the time of his death he was practically at the end of his financial resources.
The coroner read a lengthy statement left by Lindsey in which he stated that Gray should not have the typiste. Miss Ferguson, even if it cost him his life. He hoped to kill Gray unawares, so that his death would he as painless as possible. Lindsey’s brother gave evidehce that two of his sisters and his brother had suffered from mental nfflietiorf, nevertheless the jury returned a verdict of murder and suicide, Lindsey bping perfectly sane at the time of the tragedy. —Aus.- N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 5
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167A JEALOUS LOVER. Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 5
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