ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE THROUGH JEALOUSY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1375, 10 May 1883, Page 2

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE THROUGH JEALOUSY.

Mrs Cornish, a > .widoyr. ( 'jlivingj I Sydney, hag '|wq, iaughtcra, Jano ; Emilyi the latter of whom la sbout | twenty-one years' old. Jane lives witii her mother, r but' Emily is in service at Biirwood, and attempted murdir iiad co'nie to, see' mother.': Mrs Cornish had a lodger named.Joh Benneta, thirty years'of age,i!arop&-maker, employed'wlj works of Messrs 1 'Foisyth., in . the-%it-tingioom we're Mrs Cornish, her ; toro daught^n, ; and'Beiinets, having their evening,meal, He,requested Jane Cornish,, to |etcl»;T^■: This , lequest i sto ' complied and the left the room for thav> purpose.'; /; 'Bennett, without any wirhirig whatever,, then drew a sixchambered revolver and shot Emily Cornish to tbe left cheek, Mrs Cornish pluokily' attempted to wrestle the \|ei(pon; fro^. him','he pulled the, trigger, ; teems to', haye. missed fire. ' She .m 1 away, going out of the houflo,' and _ raised'an alarm. Yj fired i at Jas she- Nn. jpnd thetAb)fl, the - - tHoE again taking effect in the head jib lieving her to • be dead Benneta then placed the his mouth and shot himself numberlof the Argug slates that the, injured girl it slowly re<»venng^\