A CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 June 1901, Page 4

A CHRISTCHURCH TRAGEDY.

Two Women and a Boy brutally

Murdered.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Christchurch, This Day,

A brutal murder of two women and a boy was committed between Friday and Monday at East Eyreton. It was reported during the night and the police are out enquiring. The victims are Mrs. Henry Martin, a widow, aged 70, Miss Ellen Martin, her daughter, aged 40, and a grandson, Lonmer Martin, aged four, who were in one room. The grandmother and child were found with their heads smashed in and in another the daughter similarly treated. All were dead when the discovery was made. The house is 400 yards from the road. Later, The weapon supposed to have been used in the Eyreton murder is a bloodstained tomahawk, which the police found on the floor. The perpetrator appears to have gone coolly and deliberately to work, and to have been in no hurry to leave the pren ises until he had carried out his intention of robbing the establishment. The house was ransacked from end to end. The Martins were well-known and highly respected in the district. So far no arrests have been made, though suspicions point in a certain direction.