MAN SHOT BY DAUGHTER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21811, 17 June 1936, Page 12

MAN SHOT BY DAUGHTER

FATAL MISHAP NEAR NELSON ATTEMPT TO PROTECT MOTHER FROM ATTACK (I>RBSS ASSOCIATION telegram.) NELSON, June 16. Shot with a .303 rifle fired by his 15-year-old daughter, Joseph Caldwell, aged 48, cf Kiwi, was killed instantaneously just before 9 o’clock this morning. Caldwell, who was a well-known resident of the Tadmor district, was a returned soldier, having served with the Australian Imperial Force. He was gassed while at the war, and at times he suffered lapses of depression. Residents of the district allege that he frequently became rather violent. This morning, it is alleged, he was attacking his wife when his daughter became alarmed, and, putting a cartridge in a .303 rifle, fired it off, intending, it is thought, to frighten her father. The bullet entered Caldwell’s neck, however, killing him instantaneously. A man named Winter, who was staying at Kiwi with Mr R. Ricketts, the nearest neighbour to the ' Caldwells, heard the shot, and a scream, and went across the paddocks to investigate. The daughter of the dead man ran down to the railway line, which runs just behind the Caldwell’s house, and told the linesmen who were passing on a trolley that she had shot her father. The police at Nelson were informed and Inspector I'. Lewin, accompanied by Sergeant W. H. Simister and Constable Houston, of Wakefield, went to Kiwi to make investigations. Kiwi is about 45 miles from Nelson.