SEAWARD BUSH TRAGEDY
AN OLD MAN AHD A MAID. ELOPEMENT'S TRAGIC SEQUEL. Per Press Association. Invercargill, March 13. A fortnight ago, Edward Henry Smith, who was a married man, of about seventy years of age, commission agent, and his typist, Miss Myrtle Scott, aged twenty, disappeared . Two men, who were rabbit-shooting at Seaward Bush on Sunday, saw a man in the scrub, and they were leaving to inform the police when a bullet whizzed P ast one of them. On the arrival of the police, Scott was found dead, having been shot in the head, while Smith was wounded in' the head, and died, later. Til© two had lived in Miamia concealed in, the bush, subsisting chiefly on turnips and potatoes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 6
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121SEAWARD BUSH TRAGEDY Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 82, 13 March 1916, Page 6
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