TRIPLE MURDER
•' ...... 'ATRUAHINE - & FARMER, HIS WIFE, AND CHILD TOMAHAWKED. . ; (By Telfigraph.—Press Association.) Palmersfon North, December 29.> Advice was received by tie local police this evening that a horrible .'triple murder had been committed. ,at Ruahine, presumably on Monday morning,. tW victims beiiig Mr. James M'Cann, farmer, his wife, and daughter. The discovery was not made until to- ■ Say, but as M'Cann was found lying in Lis cowshed; it was inferred that he .was milking at the : time of the murder.'. • ' >...■ It is evident'that he was killed with, / fc tomahawk. . , , ■ It appears that the then 1 proceeded to the house-and killed Mrs)*- ' M'Cann and her dhild, aa the , .were found lying in bed. ■■■', ' . Mrs. M'Cann was killed by the blow . of a tomahawk, which sank into the iskull from eye to eye. <> Tho nature of the child's wounds was '.toot stated in the.message. : *i On the discovery of the tragedy, Sergeant Harvio, of Taihape, and Constable Essen, of Mangaweka, proceeded to the soeiie of the murder. ' Detectives : Siddells and Qiiirke-also left to mvesti6ate. Suspicions point to a - Gorman farm labourer, who has disappeared.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2345, 30 December 1914, Page 5
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182TRIPLE MURDER Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2345, 30 December 1914, Page 5
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