LABOURER SHOT

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1931, Page 8

LABOURER SHOT

DAUGHTER ARRESTED.

MELBOURNE, April 28. Wilma Gertrude Ellen Young, 15, of Garfield North, was arrested to-day and charged with having murdered her father, William Jess© Young, 43, an orchardist.

' The body of Young was found outside his homestead. The face had been half shot away by a chai’ge from n gun.

In a statement to th© police, George Knowles, labourer, a boarder at i oung’s jiome, said that at 1.30 p.m. he was working behind a shed about 100 ydids from tlie house. He heard voices inside the shed, and then heard a shot, tho girl ran out of the shed into the house. She was carrying a doublebarrelled shot gun. He looked at Young, who was lying on th© ground, and he was dead. Knowlos*followed the girl into tho house, where he found her in a very distressed condition. When asked what had happened, she had reuthat her fatller tried to assault her. Knowles then communicated with th© police.

The first news of the tragedy was received by Constable A. Macdonald, ot Garfield, who was on duty at th© Nar n,^i- GoOn races - In company with another constable, he visited the Young s home, and interviewed Wilma fn?i U +h’? Vl ?° iS i alleged t 0 have admited that she shot her father. She. said that she kept a double-barrelled gun troubled her 1 before h ° r father had North'K JX. clnldien. four of whom are adults.