Arms cache mystery
(New Zealand Press Association) » WELLINGTON. August 17. A 60-year-old man literally stumbled on to a hidden arms cache in a copse of trees at Cornwall Park Rugby grounds, /Auckland, yesterday morning. He found a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition that may have been hidden by the St Cuthbert’s College gunman, John Walton Freeman.
The man, Mr P. Kaukas. had been watching a junior boys Rugby match at the Cornwall Rugby Club, when the ball was kicked into the copse, which borders the Rugby club and St Cuthbert’s College.
Searching for the ball, he tripped over the top of a stout metal box, in which he found the shotgun, some cartridges, and .303 shells. A police spokesman said today that the box and the arms might well be associated with Freeman — the man who, three months ago, shot and badly injured a 13-year-old schoolgirl before turning the gun on himself. It was possible that Freeman, near whose body about 70 rounds of .303 ammunition were found, had hidden the shotgun (along with surplus .303 shells) because he did not have the ammunition for it. Nothing has yet been
found to connect the box wtih Freeman, although its contents and place of discovery were suitably sinister.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33924, 18 August 1975, Page 1
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