A murder of an old man of 73 by an
older man of 81 is not a common event. Such a murder, however, took place at Whitton, near Hounslow, on Monday last, and was followed by the suicide of the murderer, who blew his own heart out. The quarrel was a common and trivial one ; the murderer being a tenant of his victim's, and having in his cups maligned his landlord, from whom he had received notice to quit. On the previous Friday the landlord, Mr. Kyezor, and the tenant, Mr. Green, had had a public quarrel. All Saturday and Sunday the latter brooded over it, got some old horse-pistols in readiness, met his victim on Monday morning in his early walk, and shot him in the abdomen, returning home immediately to destroy himself. Mr. Kyezor, who was much respected, died within a few hours of his wound. Green's wife, who was evi- dently very much afraid of him, said he had had a slight sun- stroke two years ago, and a fall on his head two months ago, which the coroner's jury made the excuse for finding that he com- mitted the suicide in a state of temporary insanity. They found him guilty of the wilful murder of Mr. Kyezor.
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