Shots in Street: Young Man fires at Girl and Cyclist: Dramatic End to Pursuit: A tragedy occurred late last night at Leicester whereby a man and young woman were injured, and another man committed suicide. A young man named Horace Pincent (19), living in Archdeacon-lane, was walking with a girl named Ada Smith, who resides in Bedford-street. In London-road a quarrel ensued between the couple, and Pincent, it is alleged, shot at her, a bullet grazing her face and going through her hat. A man named Hitch, residing in Wood Hill, was passing on a bicycle, and, getting off to intervene, he was shot through the neck. Pincent, it is declared, then fires two more shots without doing any harm. He then made off. A chase ensued, and it was after going a quarter of a mile that the end came, Pincent committing suicide by blowing his brains out before his pursuers reached him.
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GRO0431 Tiverton: Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913