SHOT DEAD
LANDLORD KILLED VISIT TO PROPERTY ARREST OF TENANT (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 22. A well-known resident of Mananui, near Taumarunui, Jeremiah O'Sullivan, a married man, aged about 50 years, was shot dead at about 4.30 this afternoon. A bullet from a .22 calibre rifle entered his right eye. The, dead man, who hac a family of three children, occupied a ccttage on the Taumarunui racecourse property at Mananui. He grazed cows on the property, but had received notice from the owners, the Taumarunui Borough Council, to vacate it. O'Sullivan owned a cottage about a quarter of a mile from the racecourse near the domain and, with the intention of occupying it himself, he had notified the tenant to vacate his property. O'Sullivan visited his property this afternoon and while there he met his death.
An inqupst will be opered to morrow.
The police have taken O'Sullivan's tenant, Charles Harold Longley, a married man, aged 39 years, an invalidity pensioner, into custody in connection with the shooting.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 6
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170SHOT DEAD Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 6
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