Fatal Tragedy at Auckland.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2261, 3 April 1886, Page 3

Fatal Tragedy at Auckland.

Two Deaths. A Love Affair. , .' .(United Pkess Association) ■; ■ ' Aitklaxd, April 2.. : • ' % A young girl named Emily Keeling, 1 aged IG, was-met by a young man named , 'Edward Fuller, aged 2'i. A conversation took place, and a few minutes afterwards f. report was heard, and the young lady ■ ■ Ml. She.was carried into, an adjutant ,shop.' ; '.:innnediately^ ■ report was heard, and it was discovered that the man' had shot himself through the head. -V

' ' ■ y ', .V'^'-.LiTEKKj.. . The circumstances appear to be as follow# Kdward Fuller resided' with ...-his 1 brother-in-law, Mr Jenkins, builder, in King./ Street. !le .a. laborer. : and' worked in some of : tl 10 ibricky.irds. 1 ; Emily ■ Mary Keeling was seventeen years of age. Fully, apparently, was.madly.in love Kith kor, and when she was only fifteen years oft or rather more than two years agoydie} •' JO® proposals to. jio t l .;;jjarents to marry;. JW X - Miss Keeling, however, did not recijkrooca&his indeed'tried;tcy._ avoid him,, although ho endeavored con-, ■„ stantlv to meet. her. Last; evening she was on her way to a bible : olas3 meeting, when she was met by Fuller. He seized. ■ hor by the arm,.and dischr.rged two shots from a small .six-chambered bull-dog „ Mvolver into her breast. ■

Tho actual firing was not seen by any- < one i tot reports'''wo' ;heavd;/.'by ..seve'rai: •' parsons including Miss Burgess who had just passed them,') and Mr Thomas , a «turekeepor,who''resi.de.syi|V',tho vicinity. Tho bullets onfcered. hbr.v.!;broa.st, 1 and sluv w« only able to run across the road and . fainted on the doorstep. The poor girl died within withinJialftaii-hour.. Fuller, with soino insane, idea.of escape possibly in .- his mind, ran at full, speed toward Bi isbaue-.strcet; . *t corner, of which he turned »nd deliberately shot himself throvgh tho mouth, and fell dead instantaneously. It was pretty dark at the time, but not. 'so • dark as to. byV seeing ; ,th.o : ■ two forms. ' .. > '.V