THE FOXTON TRAGEDY
anssitfCr boy returns
SAYS SHOOTING ACCIDENTAL
CHARGED WITH MURDER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) LEVIN, This Day. The sixteen-year-old youth, Roy Eas- j ton, who was missing after the shoot- ! ing tragedy at his father's farm on Tuesday afternoon in which his brother, Jack Easton, lost his life, returned home last evening. _ He states that the shooting was accidental. He and his brother quarrelled over the latter's late arrival at the milking shed. He went to the house and got a gun to go rabbit shooting, and was returning by the cowshed to tell his father and brother they could j finish the milking themselves, when he tripped on a sack, the gun being discharged in the fall. He fled in panic when he saw his brother stagger. The inquest on Jack Easton opened at Levin this morning, and was adjourned till 9th December.
Roy Easton was subsequently charged before Justices of the Peace with the- murder of John Spencer Seabury Easton. The police were granted a remand to AVellington for seven days, stating that a further remand would probably be necessary.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 15
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183THE FOXTON TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 15
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