MAN SHOT DEAD

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23132, 23 September 1940, Page 6

MAN SHOT DEAD

♦ VISIT TO LEASED COTTAGE

TENANT TAKEN INTO

CUSTODY

(PIIESS ASSOCIATION - TELEGRAM.)

AUCKLAND, September 22

A well-known resident of Manama, near Taumarunui, Jeremiah O Sullivan, a married man, aged about 50 years, was shot dead about 4.30 o clock this afternoon. A bullet from a .22 calibre rifle entered his right eye. O’Sullivan, who had a family of three children, occupied a cottage on the Taumarunui racecourse property at Mananui. He grazed cows on the property, but had received notice from the owners, the Taumarunui borough Council, to vacate it. O'Sullivan owned a cottage about a quarter of a mile from the racecourse, near the domain, and, with the intention of occupying it himself, had notified the tenant to vacate his property. O’Sullivan visited his property this afternoon, and while there he met his death. An inquest will be opened to-morrow. The police have taken O’Sullivan’s tenant, Charles Harold Longley. a married man, aged 39, an invalidity pensioner, info custody in connexion with the shooting.