The Telegram. — 1896-11-03 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SEQUEL TO A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. A MERCHANT SHOT BY A LADY.  A sensational affair happened in the bin: iest part of commercial Liverpool soon after four o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Two ladies, both very excited, walked up Water Street and entered the office of Mr. Edgar Holland, in Drury Buildings. Mr. Holland is • men:haat, and managing director oi the Santa Barbara Gold Mining Company (Limited) and the Plum& Gold Mining Company (Limited), and resides in Liscard, Cheshire. Miss Catherine Kempshaw, a lady of fair complexion ..ud about 30, asked for Mr. Holland. He was rising to speak to her when she fired at him, exclaiming in an excited manner that she had two more to serve in the same way. She was at once ..rrested and conveyed to the Central Bridewill, and Mr. Holland meanwhile was taken on an ambulance to the Northern Hospital, where he was ioand to be very weak front lons id blood. All three shots had taken effect, one bullet having lodged in the chest, and wounds being inflicted in the right thigh bind wrist. The outiage is the ,equel .o some sensational litigation. Some twelve months ago Miss Kempshaw failed in a breach of 'nowise action against Mr. Holland in Loudon. .-iiie afterwards threatened Mr. Holland, and was ..ound over to keep the peace. She had been 0h...5q./el for a day or two in the vicinity of Water Street. She is alleged to be an actress, and made Mr. Holland's acquaintance while performing in • pantomime in Liverpool. The four-chamber revolver fociad on her baci three cartridges discharged. Miss Kempshaw's friend disappeared. At Liverpool Police-court on the following day, Catherine Kerupshaw was charged with attemptnag to murder Mr. Holland. Prisoner seemed iiinch.depressed. A police oonstable mid when he cached Mr. Holland's office on Thursday he iound prisoner was being held by Mr. Alsop, a solicitor. She was clutching a dagger and a revolver lay at her feet. Mr. Holland said, "Thai woman shot me." When prisoner was charged with the attempted murder she said, "I had better reserve my defence." She was remanded. Although Mr. Edgar C. Holland, the Liverpool merchant who was shot in his office on Thursday afternoon by Miss Catherine Kempshall, under senwitional circumstances, still lies at the Northern Hospital in • critical condition, the belief is entertained by the doctors in attendance that he will ultimately recover. In accordance with an order made by the magistrates on the application of Mr. W. H. Qualliam, her solicitor, Mine Kempshall has undergone a medical examination as to her mental condition. It is stated that the examination furnished conclusive evidence that the lady suffers from deitleions. She complains of having long suffered from insomnia, and it is believed that the conclusion arrived at by the medical gentlemen was that the prisoner was suffering from what is kaown as hysteria-monomania. Since her arrest Miss Kempshall has written a letter to her sister, who is a married lady residing in the South of England. As the letter contained her account of what Lock place in Mr. Holland's office when the shooting took place the police deemed it advisable in the interests of justice, to retain the original, but a copy of the decomet has been furnished to prisoner's solicitor to be forwarded to her sister. Miss Kempshall was again brought before the stipendiary magistste on Saturday morning, and formerly remanded for a week. The prisoner looked haggard and ill. Later in the day she was removed to Walton Gaol.