Tragedy after Lovers’ Quarrel: [Photograph – Horace Pinsent]: Leicester: 24th April: A sensational shooting tragedy took place here late last night. A young man of nineteen named Horace Pinsent, an engineer’s apprentice, was walking with his sweet-heart, Ada Smith, in a road on the outskirts of Leicester when they had a quarrel, and Pinsent fired a revolver at her, with the result that a bullet grazed her cheek. A cyclist named Herbert Hytch got off his machine, but before he could interfere, Pinsent shot at him, and the bullet struck him in the neck. He fell to the ground, bleeding profusely. Pinsent then ran away to a side road, placed the revolver muzzle in his mouth, and blew his brains out. The man Hytch was taken to the infirmary.
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GRO0431 Tiverton: Horace Pinsent: 1893 – 1913