Leicester Daily Post: Thursday 24th April 1913

Summary of the Week; Local: A sensational tragedy took place in Stoner gate, Leicester, last night. A young man named Pinsent, son of the licensee of the King’s Head. Bursley’s lane, committed suicide by shooting himself, after slightly wounding a girl with whom he was walking, and firing at a cyclist, named Hytch, who was attracted by the girl’s screams. 


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Referenced

GRO0431 Tiverton: Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913