COTTAGE OWNER SHOT
- TENANT ARRESTED [per press association.] AUCKLAND, September 22. A well-known resident of Mananui, near Taumarunui, Jeremiah O’Sullivan, marred, aged about 50 years, was shot dead about 4.30 o’clock this afternoon. A bullet from a .22 calibre rifle entered his right eye, O’Sullivan, who had a family of three children, occupied a cottage on the Taumarunui racecourse property at Mananui. He grazed cows on the property, but had received notice from the owners, the Taumarunui Borough "Council, to vacate it. O’Sullivan owned a cottage about a quarter of a mile from the. racecourse, near the domain, and, with the intention of occupying it himself, had notified the tenant to vacate his property. O’Sullivan visited his property this afternoon, and while there he met his death.. An inquest will be opened tomorrow. , The police have taken O’Sullivan’s tenant, Charles Harold Longley,, married, aged 39, an invalidity pensioner, into custody in connection with the I ■" . '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1940, Page 6
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