SAD SHOOTING AFFAIR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 28 April 1891, Page 2

SAD SHOOTING AFFAIR.

A POLITICIAN SEEKS REFUGE IN DEATH. [By Tbleqbaph.] Auoki<and, Mr Joseph Greenwood, who contested the Eden seat at the recent election, was found dead on his farm at Mount Koskjll this morning. He went out with a gun, sayirg he was going to catch the horses, and was found shot through the head. Death was instantaneous, He leaves a wife and ten children., He was Chairman of tho Mount Roskill Lioenaing Committee and Road Board. Later. The following are tho particulars of the Greenwood shooting affair: To-day he left his house, saying he was going to catoh his horse to go to town. He was absent some time, and Mrs Greenwood sent her youngest son, a boy of 18 or 14 years, to assist. The boy found that the horse with the bridle on was tied to the wall, but the same moment he heard a shot fired and saw his father fall. Greatly (Tightened, he ran to a neighbor, who came and saw that Mr Greenwood had Bhot himself through tho temple, blowing his brains out. He was about 54 years of age, and leaves a wife and also ten children, four of whom are married. He was choirman of SQme local bodies. Tho theory of the suicide is that Mr Greenwood was depressed in spirits, through the recent election, not because of his defeat for Eden, but on account of certain charges for election expenses and because on that account he feared.

that the provisions of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act had been infringed daring the contest. He was an old colonist, arriving in Wellington at the age of four years.