ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AND MURDER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 27 October 1882, Page 2

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AND MURDER.

(per united pbbss isspoiATioVo - - ( - - Auckland, Oct. -26. ■•■ ' At a quarter to -five 'this mo.-nrio-' Albert Edward Long/ aged 19, resjl ng at Pokeno, shot his father, Kichard Dixon Long, aged 53, but not fatally. The sou afterwards shot himself. ' The father's wound "is expected^ to prove fatal. It is supposed the '• cause was money mutters. ' ■ * - LATISB. The following particulars of the tragedy have been received :— A respeotaßle gentleman named Long, residing with, an equally respectable family named Adams, had a son who has been a prodigal and done as he liked. He returned to his father about a week ago from Auckland and Tauranga, where it is reported he had spent a considerable • sum of money. His manner since his return has been sullen and moody ; but no one suspected that he contemplated the dreadful deed which occurred early this morning. He got a revolver while his father was asleep, and putting it behind his ear, shot him through the head, the ball passing just below the brain.- Then the youth shot himself through the head in front of the ear. Ihey are both still alive, but in a critical state. Two doctors are attending them. Much sympathy is expressed in the distnot, Long being known ' as a kind gentlemen, not long from London. The doctoic believe there is hope' of the father's reoovery, but none of the son's.