URUWHENUA TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 23143, 17 December 1938, Page 16

URUWHENUA TRAGEDY

INQUEST OPENED [Pee United Press Association.] NELSON, December 17. An inquest on the Uruwhenua victims was opened at Takaka this morning for identification purposes and adjourned sine die by the coroner (Mr R. W. Kirk, J.P.). [A message published yesterday stated that Mrs Arthur Kerr and her son Jack, aged 10 years, were found shot dead wit(i a .22 rifle bullet at their home, Uruwhenua, Takaka County. The husband, Arthur Kerr, was detained by the police. The victims'were found dead, apparently murdered, at the home at Uruwhenua. 15 miles from Takaka. A daughter, Miss I. Kerr, was in the house at the time of the happening and gave the alarm to neighbours, who informed the policeman at Takaka. Mrs Kerr and the boy apparently had been shot with a .22-calibre rifle. Kerr is a , farmer, aged about 50, and kept the Uruwhenua Post Office..)

GHARGED WITH MURDER

[Peu United Press Association.) NELSON, December 17. At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Takaka to-day, before Mr ll W. Kirk, J.P., Arthur Frederick Kerr, farmer, of Uruwhenua,, was charged with the murder of his wife, Lorna May Kerr, at Uruwhenua ou December 16. , On the application of Inspector J. Carroll the accused was remanded to appear at the Magistrate’s Court at Nelsou on Monday, December 19.