MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5184, 18 November 1895, Page 3

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

apparently prearranged! FINANCIAL TROUBLES THE i SUPPOSED CAUSE. ( Recemd Number 18,11.30 a.m. :?y. . Sydney, November 18. ■ tii 11 > n ' ense sensation has been 'i-mmidcity, owing to the mur- ! WBWv by Artliui' Daore, the wellkaown actor, of his wife Amy Roselle, followed by his own suicide. The couple were lodging at Mac-([Uiirie-strect, whero the crime took ( place late last night. » Po« some time past they have been . engaged playing with Leitch's ComI ■ pany at tho Theatre Royal, thoconplo [. taking loading parts in tlio " Land of tho Moa," appeared on Saturday night but neither were in tho best of lienltli. Al| day yestorday they kept in thiir rooms reading for a new play, , "The Sileuco of Dean Maitland." Liito in the ovening a noise was heard in the room following by a violent ringing of the boll. The housomaid answored but they would not open the door. Eventually an entrance was effected when Dacro was found dying and expired soon after. > ' Mrs Dacro was lying on her bed, dressed in a. nightgown as if sliot in tjuUied. seems to liavo acted methodically throughout the dreadful tragedy. Ho apparently shot his wife and rang the bell for the purpose of attracting attention. It, Ho thou wont into the tho bedroom und cut bis throat. Full light is thrown on tho unfortunate inan'sstate of mind by several letters in which hespeaks of liniincial troubles. The accepted opinion, which is borne oiit by the tenor of the letters, is that it was pro-arranged between them. Mrs Dacro was shot twice in the left breast, dentil apparently being instantaneous.