TRAGEDY IN A BOARDING HOUSE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2091, 28 August 1890, Page 4

TRAGEDY IN A BOARDING HOUSE.

Recently a tragedy, the outcome'of a woman’s jealousy, occurred at Marlborough House, Parliament Place, East Melbourne, when a woman named Mrs Edith Jubb, the keeper of a fashionable lodging house, attempted, in a fit of jealousy, to murder her affianced ‘ lover, and then committed suicide by shooting herself, Mrs Jubb was about 35 years of age, add; a widow, and the other principal in the affair was a widower, named Alffrid Turner, a land speculator, about 46 years of age. Turner made a statement that he had gone into Mrs Jubb’s room to say good-night to her before retiring to. bed, and that she had accused him of inconstancy, Ho attempted to defend himself, but'she would listen to no explanation, and 1 became greatly enraged. Ho walked across the room, and'she suddenly turned out the gas, fired at him while his back was still turned towards her, and then shot herself. He felt the bullet whistle past his head, and heard it strike the wall. He then made his way out of the room and obtained the assistance of Mr Wright, another boarder, 'furrier himself was struck on the forehead by a piece of plaster, knocked off the wall by.the bullet and received a nasty wound. He has been arrested on a charge of wilful murder. There is no doubt the relations between the two were not what they should have been. Mrs Jubb has .a, husband (separated from her) . and three children ; (; Mr Turper has a wife (separated from him) and one child. Mrs Jubb is a woman with a history. Her husband is a Mr Forrester-Jubb, having taken the latter name at the wish of a deceased uncle who left him a fortune This he lost in speculation, and after sojourning in Canada and the United States he and his wife arrived in Western Australia A scandal between the wife and - a navy officer caused them to leave there for Melbourne. Here they kept a boarding house ; but Mr Jubb eventually left his wife because of her familiarity with the boarders. Then she became a hotelkeeper, and afterwards returned to the boarding-house business. [.Recent cable news state that the doctors are of opinion that it was almost impossible for the wounds found .on Mrs Jubb’s body to have been self-inflicted.]