THE POKENO TRAGEDY
[press association telegram t AUCKLAND, October 27. Both victims of the Pokeno shooting case are likely to recover The ball fired at the father passed through the lower part of the scalp, grazing but not fracturing the skull. It was extracted on the other side of the head. The bullet in the son’s head was fired too low to touch the brain, and is lodged somewhere in the upper part of the face, its exact loc Ity not yet being ascertained. Both are poifeotly sensible. The parricide’s mother is dead. The father waa formerly a draper in London, and came out with some means, intending to commence farming. The son had been engaged since his arrival with theatrical companies, going under the name of Bertie Lonne. Latterly he had been engaged to a young lady at Tauranga, and it ui supposed that his recent visit to his father was for the purpose of obtaining money and marry. His refusal, however, is believed to have led him to commit the desperate deed, While at Tauranga young Long was most abstemious, not eccentric, but very excitable.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2670, 27 October 1882, Page 3
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187THE POKENO TRAGEDY Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2670, 27 October 1882, Page 3
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