John Bianchi

John Bianchi was shot in the stomach as he walked through Walkergate in Newcastle with his cousin.

He had been escorting his cousin from her father's house to a fever hospital at walker Gate, Newcastle at about 9.45pm, where she was employed as a laundry-maid when a shot was fired from behind a hedge at him. After the man ran out of the bushes and hit the cousin on her face with the butt-end of the revolver and then made off towards some fields. The cousin's hat had served as protection and she had only received a cut wound. It was also said that the cousin had pretended to be dead until the murderer ran off.