THE CHRISTCHURCH MURDER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9627, 20 October 1909, Page 5

THE CHRISTCHURCH MURDER.

HOW THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED

ASSAILANT STILL AT LARGrJ

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS

By Telegraph—Press Association.

CHRISTCHURCH, October 19

From a statement made by a boarder in the restaurant that the girl Newman and an unknown man were quarrelling and the latter fired three shots, and then escaped. The building is as a board • ing-house, and a place of amusement, the front part being occupied by slot machines, billiard-room and temperance bar. Upstairs the.rooms run along a passage, at the end of which the tragedy occurred. No one saw the occurrence, but Warwick, a boarder, passed a. couple near the stairhead, and immediately after heard shots fired, and opening his door the girl ran in bleeding from the mouth and face. He rushed out, and gave the alarm, and Dr. Thomas arrived, but found life extinct.

The detectives found no trace of the man, and the only guidance available is VVarwick's statement. The description he gives tallies with that of a man previDUsly convicted of minor offences.

The weapon used was a revolver of small calibre.

Orie shot struck the girl in the temple, and one in the jugular vein, causing profuse hemorrhage from which death quickly resulted. The third shot missed her, and pierced the door.

Warwick says that the man claimed that the girl was the wife of another man, and warned Warwick, who had been out with her three times, to have nothing more to do with her. The victim was about 25 years of age, good looking, of dark, Spanish type, and appeared rather quiet. She had previous'y indignantly denied- being married.

It is understood that she came from Wellington.

ROBERTS ARRESTED. A FULL CONFESSION. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRIdTCHURCH, October 19. The man Robert*, who was suspected of having shot the girl Newman, was arrested at Prebbleton today. He made a full confession.

Roberts was before the Court in August last for using a revolver in a street row. He was then remanded for medical examination as to his sanity. The doctor said Roberts was, sane, and he was let off. He has been two years in the Dominion; and is a native of Scotland.