MAN SHOT DEAD
VISIT TO HIS LEASED HOUSE HIS TENANT HELD IK CUSTODY [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 22. A well-known resident of Mananui, near Taumarunui, Jeremiah O’Sullivan, a married man, aged about 50 years, was shot dead at about 4.30 this afternoon. A bullet from a .22 calibre rifle entered his right eye. The dead man, who had a family of three children, occupied a cottage on the Taumarunui racecourse property at Mananui. He grazed cows on the property, but had received notice from tho owners, tho Taumarunui Borough Council, to vacate it. O’Sullivan owned a cottage about a quarter of a mile from the racecourse, near the domain, and, with tho intention of occupying it himself, he had notified the tenant to vacate his property, r O’Sullivan visited his property this afternoon, and while there he met his death. An inquest will be opened to-mor-r°Thc police have taken O’Sullivan’s tenant, Charles Harold Longley, a married! man, aged 39 years, an invalidity (pensioner, into custody in connection with the shooting.
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Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 4
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172MAN SHOT DEAD Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 4
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