SHOOTING TRAGEDY
TWO BOYS FOUND DEAD
FORBIDDEN SHOTGUN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
TAUMARUNUI, This Day.
•A terrible shooting tragedy occurred at Otunui, seven miles from Taumarunui, yesterday, resulting in the death of Trevor Dean, aged 6, son of Anthony Dean, a roadman, and Charlie Robinson, aged 14, a brother-in-law of Anthony Dean with whom lie was residing.
Robinson went to the river about half a mile from the house yesterday morning, accompanied by Trevor Dean, to wash a blanket, taking with him a small calibre shotgun which had been hidden in a cupboard and which he had been forbidden to use. They were last seen alive by a neighbouring farmhand at 10 a.m., when both were running across a swing bridge. Dean's parents became anxious when the boys did not come in for lunch and set out to search for them at 3 o'clock. Both were found dead at 5 o'clock in fern and scrub near the river. Trevor Dean had been shot through the head and Robinson was also shot through the head.
Trevor Dean was a quarter-caste Maori and Robinson a half-caste.
The gun had been used by Dean sen. for shooting rabbits. It is surmised that Robinson hid it in the blanket when he set out from the house.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 10
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SHOOTING TRAGEDY
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 10
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