SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
MI’ITDEH AN!) SIICIDK. Maslerlon, Sept. 10. A double tragedy. occurred some lime yesterday in Eernridge, near Masterloif, whereby n little (diild was murdered nnd the murderer subsequently committed suicide. It appears that the child, three years old, the son of Mr and Mrs McKenzie, was last seen hy his mother after lunch yesterday, when he went out to a paddock in which a youth on the farm, named Edward Hay, was working. Hay later returned to the house without the child, and was sent to look for him, hut he came back without the hoy. A short time afterwards Hay disappeared, taking with him a gun belonging to Mr McKenzie. A search was at once instituted . for the missing child and Hay, and to-day the child was found dead, having apparently been struck on the head with an axe. The body of Hay was found with a gunshot wound through the head. The body of the child was found in a creek. It was covered with gorse, and with its head smashed in, apparently with an axe. The tragedy is supposed to have occurred early yesterday afternoon. Hay was eighteen years of age, and formerly an inmate of an industrial sehool. An inquest on both bodies will be held this afternoon.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2175, 11 September 1920, Page 2
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213SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2175, 11 September 1920, Page 2
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