THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 28 October 1882, Page 2

THE AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

(PBB TTNITBD PEESS iSStfdiiTlbK.') ' '„ '■,' ' ' AvoKLmi). Oct. 27. „ ! Both victims of the Pokeno shooting ca9e ■ are;,h"kely to,- recover... .The -ball fired at the father passed' through the lower part .of the scalp, grazing, but not fraoturing, the skull- It was extracted on the other side of the' bead. ' The bullet in the son's head was fired too low to touch the brain, and is lodged somewhere in the upper part of ; the face, but the exact locality has not yet been ascertained ; both are ' perfectly sensible. The parricide's mother is. dead. Thefather was formerly a draper in, London, and came out with, some means ; he' intended, commencing farih-1 ing. The son Had been engaged Bince his arrival with theatrical, companies,' going under the name of Bertie Longue.. Latterly he had been engaged to a young lady at Tauranga. It ia supposed that his recent visit to hia father was for the purpose of .obtaining money to marry. A. refusal, it is believed, led to the desperate deed. While at Tauranga young Long was mostabstemious,noteccen]t^tiKr, but very excitable. ' ; ?"*? Young Long who shot himself is imH 1 proving in. condition, and it is stated is"" in a fair way of recovery. t: ,The doctors have not attempted to search for the bullet. His father is also' improving. The ball has been extracted. "