SYDNEY TRAGEDY.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
(Received Wednesday, 9.45 p.m.). SYDNEY, February 2.
A tragedy occurred at a house in Wollstoncraft to-day, when Mrs. Paul* widow of Dr. Paul, was fatally shot and a man, Rene Vandervelde, a< Dutchman, was seriously wounded. According to the story of Mrs Paul’s maid M Vandervelde was a close friend of Mrs. Paul for years. He visited her thii morning. A quarrel ensued and Vandervelde produced a revolver, while thei maid was in the room, and he ordered l her to leave. Mrs. Paul, however, begged her not to do so. Suddenly the. maid heard a shot and saw Mrs. Paul fall back into a chair. The maid Hmmoned the police. Meanwhile, she heard two further shots. The police on arrival found Mrs. Paul dead, shot in the right side of the neck. Powder stains indicated that she was shot at pointblank range. In another room Vandervelde, with a bullet-wound in the head, lay on a couch, with a bottle containing a liquid resembling poison beside him, also a revolver. He was conscious, but would not speak and was sent to hospital in a serious condition. -(P.A.).
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Wairarapa Age, 3 February 1927, Page 5
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193SYDNEY TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, 3 February 1927, Page 5
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