WOMAN KILLED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 10

WOMAN KILLED

Dairy Farm Tragedy FOUND DEAD IN SHED Pick-handle and Bullet EVIDENCE OF MURDER By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taumarunui, September 3. A shocking tragedy .was revealed about 8.30 this morning in th® township of Owhango, 15 miles south of Taumarunui, when the body of Miss ' Jean Kosoman, aged 23, was found in the rear of a milking shed with a ■bullet-wound? in her head and other \ injuries caused apparently by a, pick-handle. B It appears that Mis? Rosoman and Mr. and Mrs. D. Laing and a child, aged 10, had been milking, and had returned from the sfied to the house. 1 After breakfast Miss Rosoman returned to the milking shed to clean the cans, and Mr. Laing went to the paddocks. The children were playing on the road near the milking shed.' The children heard the rattling of the tins in the cowshed, and went-over to see what it was, when they found the girl’s body. They called their father and mother. . The children state that they saw a mamwearing a white shirt and trousers disappearing across the paddocks. The body When found was lying ip a crouched position at. the rear of, the separator roOih. The head, was knocked about anJ’a bullet'apparently had entered the head from the back. When the Taumarunui police arrived they found a pick-handle With hair on it near the body. .Further investigation showed a bullet "imbedded in the wall 'near where the girl was washing the cans. It would seem the girl was shot through the head and then struck a blow with the pick-handle. So far no arrest has been made Two spent cartridge cases were found in the separator room, but no rifle. Detectives J. ,Walsh and J. Murray arrived this afternoon. Miss Rosoman was employed by the Laing’s, with whom she lived. The scene of the tragedy is in the main street in Owhango, not far. from the railway station.