INSANE MAN’S TERRIBLE WORK.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9419, 15 April 1909, Page 8

INSANE MAN’S TERRIBLE WORK.

Two persons are dead and three seriously injured as the result of murderous attacks made by George Stewart, a young farmer of Maple Valley; Stewart, who is mentally unbalanced, was staying with his brother at Reddickville. He started out in the early morning .'with a rifle. His brother attempted to restrain him and was attacked and beaten. Stewart then went to the near by home of John Spanhouse and fired upon Mrs Spanhouse twice, wounding her in the eye and arm. ; Her husband rushed to her assistance, and was shot dead. A son, James, who was sleeping upstairs, ran down at the sonnd of the shots and Stewart beat him to death. Stewart then started for his own home, but stopped on the way at the house of Edward Pounds. Here he attacked the hired man, George Beaumont, and the housekeeper. Mrs Gowans, beating them both unconscious £and fracturing, the hired man’s skull.