DREADFUL TRAGEDY.
COMMISSION AGENT AND TYPISTE SHOT. LIVED FORTNIGHT IN THE BUSH. Invercargill, March 13. A fortnight ago Edward Henry Smith, a married man, about 70 years of age, and his typist, Myrtle Scott, aged 20, disappeared. Two men, who were rabbit shooting at Seaward Bush, B on Sunday, saw a man in- the scrub, and were leaving to inform the police, when a bullet whizzed past one of them. On the arrival of the police, the girl Scott was found dead, shot in the head. Smith was wounded in the head, and died later. The two bad lived in Miatnia, concealed in the bush, subsisting chiefly on turnips and potatoes.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1522, 14 March 1916, Page 3
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111DREADFUL TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1522, 14 March 1916, Page 3
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