WAIKINO TRAGEDY
WOMAN AND BOV FOUND DEAD BODIES THREE MILES APART. BOTH WITH HEADS BATTERED TN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAIKINO. This Day. Wilh iheir heads battered in. the bodies of Lloyd Moran, aged 15. son of Mr J. Moran, proprietor of the Waikino Hotel, and Mrs Alice Hamilton, aged 25. a cook employed there, were found throe miles apart, on the side of the Waikino-Waitawhetu Road this morning. The pair had gone out for a stroll after dinner at the hotel last evening, and when they failed to return, search parties set out. The boy's body was found at 5.15 o’clock this morning, about 150 yards from the main Waihi-Paeroa Road and the body of Mrs Hamilton was found, completely naked, at 10.15 a.m., in the scrub three miles farther on.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1940, Page 6
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