Assailant’s Suicide: An inquest was held at Leicester last night on Harold Pinsent, nineteen, pattern-maker’s apprentice, who on Wednesday night shot at his sweetheart, Ada Smith, fired at and wounded Mr. Hytch, who went to the girl’s assistance, and then turned the pistol on himself. Letters in the deceased’s writing showed he contemplated taking his own life and that of the girl. Mr. Hytch, who was unknown to the parties, is progressing favourably. The jury found that Pinsent killed himself, and that the evidence was insufficient to the state of his mind.
[see also Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail: Saturday 26th April 1913]
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Referenced
GRO0431 Tiverton: Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913