AN INSANE LOVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2115, 8 October 1885, Page 2

AN INSANE LOVER.

A tragic ending to a love suit comeß to us from the United States.- According to a Franklin City despatch all Oliincotcague Island is agog.with excitement over the shooting of Mrs Sarah Hill and Miss Jeatinie Hill, wife and daughter of Mr Timothy Hill, by William T. Freeman, who then blew hiß own brains out. Freeman was a New York newsboy, whom Mr Hill adopted ten or twelve years ago. He became strongly attached to Miss Jennie Hill a year or two ago, and mado a proposal of marriage. The girl rejected the proffer, as she did not consider Freeman her equal, though he had been her constant companion for several years during her youth. She waß remarkably pretty, and seems to have been ,a great favorite all over the island. The other day Freeman again proposed to her in the presence of her mother. She refused his offer, and then the infuriated lover drew his pistol and commenced firing. Each woman received two bullets in the head. Mrs Hill was first wounded while grappling, with the murderer, who held her.at arm's length, and shot her squarely in the forehead. -When the son of Mr Hill commenced to run to the scene, Freeman turned the pistol on himself and blew-his brains out, his corpse falling across Miss Jennie's prostrate body. The girl was highly educated, having graduated from a school'm-Baltimore about a year. ago.