LEADER'S MURDER
UNION OFFICIAL. Mortimer Enright, 38, Labour leader and chief electrician to the Board of Education, has been found dead — * shot five times and beaten — near a suburban golf links. He was last seen on Thursday, leaving a meeting of his union, where he sat in judgment in assessing heavy fines against two members for fomenting Communism. Other officials said that the I.W.W. had' members in Enright's union, and that trouble resulted. The police are divided in their opinions, as to whether the murder was the result of Labour troubles within the union, or of outside gangster origin.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 24, 21 September 1931, Page 5
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