SAD TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON.
A MAN SHOOTS BIS WIFE. HE AFTERWARDS COMMITS SUICIDE Rj) lelegrapk—Press Association. a Wellington, Wednesday. A sad tragedy iB reported froHjSjfc' . Newtown this morning, JSj i- Isaiah Pake, a bricklayer, age^^ about 51, living in Drummond-Btreet, o after a difference with his wife this 0 morning drew a revolver and shot her through the neck, the bullet d entering tho right side of tho windd pipe and coming out at the back of 1 the neck. Fake fclion turned tho weapon on himself and the bullet entered his heart, death being almost instantanej ous. Fako was only married a few months ago. e His wifo had been a Mrs Skinner, from whom her husband had a divorce on the grounds of adultery with deceased. had been known to be of eccentric habits for some time, and his wife quite recently spoke of obtaining police protection. Mrs Fake lias been removed to tho » Hospital. e The tragedy took place a 7.55 this e morning.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5180, 13 November 1895, Page 2
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167SAD TRAGEDY IN WELLINGTON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5180, 13 November 1895, Page 2
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