MURDERED HIS CHILD.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 117, 17 May 1920, Page 7

MURDERED HIS CHILD.

AGED FATHER'S CRIME. OTHER CHILDREN ATTACKED. SUUREXDF.R TO POLICE. (By Trie-graph.. — Tress Association.) DI'NHIMN, Sunday. The police were advisee! this niornin,' that, Hr. Steiihouee, of Balclutha, had been triepboned to by Mr. l'liniiett, ot UTiaretcu, Miying that the iliildren ot a fanner nan:ru John Shai|i. oi Kongahrre, !iad boon attacked hy their father during Situ:day. The children had jiot away, but in the oveniiij; tlirv were attacked a r aiu One <-ot w lnit the other, n -irl named Sophia! eeven years of was rendered niieonscions. Mr. I'aimett α-ked that tindoctor should come to the scene and brin£ a consume with him. Ur. StcnlioiiM- and t unstable Kindlaj, irom Bak-lutha, set out lur iiongaheri-, arriving at Llu-c-e o'clock this morning. ■J'he injured girl, with other lttcmlicrs ul the family, was with Mrs. Ireland n.arb\. On examination tin- doctor found that the child's head had been cnir-hed in. He ti.ul; the child in his car, and started out for Duncdin with ihe object of placing the injured jrirl in the hospital," but hy the time lie had pone seven miles she expired. He thereupon returned with tr.e body-to -Mrs. Ireland's house and left it ibe're. .Mrs. t-'harp had been in delicate health and was staying in Dunedin. The father of the children in TO years old. find a party of police set out 'from Dunedin at 11 o'clock this mornin.' to search for him. A party of police also leit from llnercargill, tbe scene of the trasedy bciiii; on the borderland of the Otago and Southland police districts. hharpe made for Lawrence and there gave himself up at a poik-e station. Rongahere is 79 miles couth-west from uunedin and 15 miles from Lawrence. Communication with Lawrence is by coach.