CHILD'S VIGIL.
BY PARENTS' BODIES.
Grim Sequel to Car Murder in
Montana.
RAMBLING STORY TO POLICE
United Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
COLUMBUS (Mont.), Nov. 28.
A child's shocking 24-hour ordeal beside the bodies of his murdered parents was revealed when six-year-old Larry Kuntz last night hailed a passerby and said: "There's nobody home. They shot mother and daddv last night."
The passerby saw that Larry's head was covered in blood, and hurried to the grain elevator, of which his father, Mike Kuntz, aged 30, was manager.
He found a car inside. Kuntz was slumped over the wheel with three bullet wounds in his head. Mrs. Kuntz, aged 28, lay in the back seat with two bullet wounds in her bodv.
Larry told the police a rambling story of leaving home with his parents on Friday night and picking up a man and a woman, hitchhikers. After that, he remembered nothing.
Police believe that Larry, who has been sent to hospital seriously hurt, was beaten over the head with a pistolbutt.
A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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