YOUTH SHOT.
TRAGEDY AT TIMARU. MURDERER GETS AWAY. NO CLUE OF IDENTITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Timaru, Last Night. A murder occurred to-night in Nelson Terrace. A youth named Clarence Wagstaff, whose father is employed at Ballontync's, was sleeping in a tent near thn house. When a friend who stayed with him returned from the pictures, and was undressing, he saw a man prowling round the house. He awoke Wagstaff, and both went to eec who it was. They went different ways round the house. Wagstaff met the man and caught hold of him, but the man broke away. He fired three shots, and one hit the youth on the left chest, and the man got away. Wagstaff was removed to the hospital, and he died an hour later. The culprit is not known.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1920, Page 5
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133YOUTH SHOT. Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1920, Page 5
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