Attempted Murder of a Girl: Would-be Rescuer Seriously Wounded: Assailant’s Determined Suicide; Grim Tragedy of an Apprentice’s Jove: … … (Very long review of the incident) (see elsewhere) … … (include) … … HORACE Pinsent, 19, an engineer’s apprentice and son of a local publican, who was the assailant and now lies dead at the mortuary killed by his own hand …
Ada Smith, a young woman of 18 years, residing at 155 Bedford Street, who had a marvellous escape from being murdered by her sweetheart. … …
As a result of a conversation in which the girl contended that she ought to give Pinsent up because she thought he was too good for her, the man suddenly produced a five-chambered revolver and fired at her, the bullet passing through the brim of her hat … …
Pinsent would not hear of this and became very strange in his manner. He turned pale and bit his lip, and Miss Smith was so alarmed that she ran away. …
Pinsent immediately pursued her, and, when nearing the corner of Ratcliffe Road, he overtook her, gripped her around the shoulder, pulled a revolver out of his waistcoat pocket, pointed it at her head and fired … …
Pinsent was a bound apprentice at the Eclipse Foundry in Graham Street, being an engineer’s pattern maker, and he is well spoken of by his employers, who regarded him as a promising and capable workman. … …
Mr. and Mrs. Pinsent, the father and mother of the unfortunate youth have kept the King’s Head in Burley’s Lane for nine years and are well known and respected in the locality. Horace was the youngest of three, having an elder brother and sister, and considerable sympathy is felt for the family in their trouble. In conversation with a “Mail” reporter this morning Mr. Ernest Pinsent, the eldest son, explained that his brother Horace, who celebrated his nineteenth birth last December, had been “keeping company” with Miss Smith for six months. She was looked upon as his sweetheart, and he thought a lot about her, and took her to his home regularly:
A Case of Jealousy.: Horace was, he added, a teetotaller, sturdily built and strong, but a quiet sort of lad and of very good disposition. He was not hot-tempered at all, and we cannot understand how he came to act as he did. He was never heard to make a threat of any sort, or we would have spoken to him about it. It is undoubtedly a case of jealousy. The last we saw of him alive, Mr. Pinsent added, was about ten minutes to eight last night. He and I are members of the “Hope and Anchor” Lodge of Odd Fellows, and he then went to pay the money for the two of us at the Magazine Hotel in Newarke Street, and to take our insurance cards. I understand that the girl went with him … (continues at length) …
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GRO0431 Tiverton: Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913