TWO BOYS SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 8

TWO BOYS SHOT.

RIVERSIDE TRAGEDY FATAL HEAD WOUNDS. BODIES FOUND IN SCRUB. GUN HIDDEN IN BLANKET ? (By Telegraph.—rrcss Association.) TAUMARUNUI, this day. A shocking shooting tragedy occurred at Otunui, seven miles from Taunmrunui, yesterday, resulting in the death of Trevor Dean, the six-year-old son of Mr. Anthony Dean, a roadman, and Charlie Robinson, aged 14, brother-in-law of Mr. Anthony Dean, with whom he was living. The boy Robinson went to the river about half a mile from the house yesterday morning, accompanied by Trevor Dean, to wash a blanket, taking with him a small-calibrc shotgun, which had been hidden in a cupboard and which he had been forbidden to use. The boys were last seen alive by a neighbouring farm hand at 10 a.m., when they were running across a swing bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Dean bccai-e anxious when the boys did not come in for lunch, and set out to search for them at 3 o'clock. Two hours later both boys were found dead in the fern nd scrub near the river. Both boys had been shot through the head. Trevor Dean was a quarter-caste Maori, and Robinson a half-caste. The gun is used, by Mr. Dean for shooting rabbits. It is surmised that the boy Robinson hid it in the blanket when he set out from the house.