FOXTON SHOOTING
BROTHER RETURNS APPARENTLY AN ACCIDENT. (Per Press Association Copyright.') *. PALMERSTON N.’ Nov. 23. * Roy Easton, who has been sought j for by the police in connection with ' the shooting tragedy near Foxton is in custody to-night. He will appeal at the Levin Court to-morrow.
It was reported that the lad was seen at 5.30 o’clock to-night on the road between Foxton and the Manawatu River by >a motorist, who offered him a lift, which the lad l refused.
The motorist informed the Foxton. police, who -searched without avail, but on their return to Foxton, they were informed, that the lad had reached his home and had been seen by a doctor, wliu and ordered 1 him to bed on account of his overwrought- state.
It appears that, after the tragedy, the lad, having seen his brother fall, was seized with panic, and fled across the sandhills to the coast. There- he spent Tuesday night subsisting on. shellfish.
To-day he worked 1 his way back towards the road, which he reached this afternoon.
He told a story of what appears now to have been a pitiful accident, It had been hi» intention to go out shooting after milking, and he desired to get finished early. The delayed arrival of hiis brother, John, from town annoyed him, and while the milking was in progress they quarrelled over this. Finally, Roy said that he was going shooting, and he left the shed, went to the house for the shot gun, and went back by way of the bails to tell his father and brother that they could finish the cows and feed the pigis themselves as he had finished, but, in passing, he tripped on a sack. The jolt forward discharged the gun in his hands, the major portion of the charge entering a post, but a few pellets—unfortunately fatal ones—hitting his brother, who'was sitting on a stool milking. Roy said that he saw his brother stagger off the stop}, and, realising his brother was hurt,' h» became panic stricken, and ran away. Roy’s first inquiry? wheiT hisfather found him was whether Jack had been much hurt. The news of bis death came as a severe shock on fop of his sufferings from exposure and lack of food. . ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1932, Page 5
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