TRAGIC ELOPEMENT
ENDS IX MURDER AND SUICIDE. Br TeiecraDh.—Press Association. Invercargill, March 13. A fortnight ago ICdward Henry Smith, a married man, about seventy years of age, a commission agent, and liis typiste, Myrtle Scott, aged twenty, disappeared. Two men who wera rabbit shooting at Seaward Bush on Sunday, saw a man in the scrub and were leaving to inform tho police when a bullet whizzed past one of them. On the arrival of the police Scott was found dead shot through the head, and Smith wounded in the head. Smith died later. The two had lived concealed in the bush, subsisting chiefly on turnips and potatoes.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 6
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107TRAGIC ELOPEMENT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2719, 14 March 1916, Page 6
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