TRAGEDY AT NEWCASTLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 777, 26 May 1881, Page 2

TRAGEDY AT NEWCASTLE.

j An exciting incident happened at Newcastle, at the Great Northern Railway, yard, at Hpneysuokle Point, shortly after :1 o'clock on >;April eTwb young men, Hmry Went andThomat-HiHyer, boiler.; maki'rt' apprentice*, had t.quurel, ih«

* 'Wen t" "prdbured \a fired two' snots at Hiliyeif;aiii ih'enattempted;Bui : oide<> £ iEha. ciroumataheesVth'alCleS upTto theroultageoraas'foildffa-i-i '•: ■"'•■ - ; -<-'- 1 cruelly 'kiekeM'smßll boy'at'.the workafiop in tlie baoK The foreman,' Mr Qrty.ihtkfenjdtowporthimi'alid'Went was heard to.aay afterwards that if, the r"r~ 'j'did'; ap'he' .'would: never'.report another, the'„ lad' he, had assaulted was eating His break' when Went came up and told him to eat a goodjbreakfait, as it was the last meal ho would over est. Nothing happened particularly till just before 1 o'clock, when Went waß;going into the'machine shop;'to'use the grindstone there, and Hillyer; a 1 machinist, told him ho would not aUpw'him to use the stone. Went said nothing, but" immediately proceeded to his drawer and took out & revolver, oame back to Hillyer and deliberately fired-at-hini. • The ball entered the forearmabeloiff.'the leflnelbow, »nd Hillyer staggered back, and, before he'had again recovered himself, Went again aimed fair at his head and Bred, but.Hillyer quickly lucked - hH' hVad, and the ball from the revolver :paßsbd through his hat. Went , thflri','seeing.Hillyer;fall; and thinking no he had killed him, pointed thereat. hia oyyn. head and pulled the trjgget and shot himself in the centre of the,,forehead., The workmen quickly gathered round, and . the greatest excitement prevailed, • Went was picked up and sent to the hospital in a cab, where Drs John and Richard' Harris and Page alter: probing for an hour, found the bullet and extracted it. • The ball was very much iflattned. The bullet penetrated two inches and a half. Went,remained sensible and was able to converse qljite. intelligently of the affair, He and Hillyer boarded at the same house, and a young woman ;was at the oottbm b'f tho affiiir may or may not have had something to qVwith it, Went's describe'him .as-being a vlciouti and bad fellow., Hillyer is not likely to suffer much' inconvenience, from his wound;'but he had a terribly narrow escape.'; WehtYcas'e is described as being from a'medical point of view, soniewh'at slrhilar'tb that of Mr Norton, police.. niagistrateatDubbo. '' " I