YOUNG WOMAN SHOT
MAN ARRESTED FOR MURDER (P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 22. Ater the fatal shooting of a young woman at Te Kuiti at 1 o'clock this morning, a young man gave himself up to the police. He was subsequently arrested on a charge of murder. The victim was Mrs Lois Ypres Fitzgerald, aged 25, 9 halfcaste Maori, of Te Kuiti. She was married, with two children, and was living apart from her husband, who lives in Wanganui, She was a daughter of Mr and Mrs William Hetet, a well-known Te Kuiti family. • First information of. the tragedy was given to Constable 'Reid, who was aroused from bed by the man, who stated he had shot a young woman. Mrs Fitzgerald was found dying. She was removed to the Te Kuiti Hospital and died this morning. The man arrested returned > from overseas service in January, after four years’ absence. He will appear in the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow on a charge of murder.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24625, 23 July 1945, Page 4
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