MANANUI MAN SHOT
By Telegraph—Press Association.
GAVE TENANT NOTICE pensioner arrested
Auckland, Last Night. A well known resident of Mananui, near Taumarunui, Jeremiah O'Sullivan, a married man aged about 50 years, was shot dead about 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. A bullet from a .22-calibre rifle entered his right eye. The dead man, who had a family of three children, occupied a cottage on the Taumarunui racecourse property at Mananui. He grazed cows on the property but he had received notice from the owners, the Taumarunui Borough Council, to vacate it. Death While on Property. O'Sullivan owned a cottage about a quarter of a mile from the racecourse, near a 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 inquest will be opened to-morrow. The police have taken O'Sullivan's tenant, Charles Harold Longley, a married man aged 39 years and an invalidity pensioner, into custody in connection with the shooting.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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172MANANUI MAN SHOT Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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