TRAGEDY ON FARM
SUGGESTION OF MURDER
MAN KILLED BY BULLET
A FAMILY QUARREL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Early this morning a shooting tragedy occurred at a lonely house near Kiwi, a small, isolated settlement 50 miles south-west of Nelson. A dairy farmer named Joseph Caldwell was killed under circumstances that aro alleged to point to murder. According to information obtained by lortg-distance telephone this morning, it is believed that the occurrence happened during a violent disagreement at a farmhouse between a family which consisted of the deceased, his wife, his daughter; aged about 16 years, and his son, aged about eight years. In some manner during the quarrel a rifle was picked up by one member of the family, pointed at the deceased, and eventually fired, the bullet causing a wound from which he soon expired.
The matter was reported to the police in Nelson by telephone, and about 10 o'clock this morning a party consisting of Inspector Lewin, Sergeant Simester, and Constable Houston left by car for the Kiwi settlement. Soon after their arrival it was stated that an arrest would probably be made, although at that time no close inquiries into the incident had been possible.
The deceased was a well-known settler in the Kiwi district, where he had been farming for about 17 years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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219TRAGEDY ON FARM Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 10
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