MAN FATALLY SHOT

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 September 1944, Page 4

MAN FATALLY SHOT

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• CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 10. ; Edgar Williams, aged 47, of Page s Road, Sandilands, was shot m the face, outside his home, at about 9.30 last night, and he died from his injuries in the Christchurch Hospital at 5 o’clock this morning. The police are conducting a seaich for Roy Kitchener Kennedy,, aged 29, a corporal in the R.N Z.A.F who was stationed at Woodbourne, but was on leave at the time of the Kennedy, according to the police was shooting in the Methven district yesterday, and he later left for Christchurch, with the intention of seeing his wife, who was staying with iter father, the deceased. Kennedy it is believed, left a taxi outdde of his father-in-law’s place m Base’s Road, and entered the house. When he returned to the taxi he wasfollowed by Williams. Immediately] afterwards a" shot was heard, and Williams was seen on the rootpath with his face severely injured He was later taken to the Christchurch Hospital, where he died. The cause of a dispute between Kennedy and Williams is said to have been of a domestic character. The police organised a search narty. A shotgun, alleged to have been used in the shooting, was found in some scrub about 400 yards from the road where Williams met his death. A spent 12-bore cartridge was also found in the locality. Inspector W. E.- Packer and Senior Detective H. Nuttall are in charge of the inquiries. It was later found that the gun used in the shooting belonged to a man named Mueller, of Methven, with whom Kennedy was shooting earlier in the day. It was removed from his home without his knowledge. A description of Kennedy, whose home is at Methven, was broadcast by the police. His height is five feet eleven inches, and his weight eleven stone. He has fair hair, parted on the side; blue eyes and false teeth, top and bottom. He was wearing khaki drill trousers and an Air Force blue battle dress tunic, with a corporal’s stripes. MAN ARRESTED. CHRISTCHURCH, September 11. Following the death of Edgar Williams from gunshot wounds . yesterday, the police, this morning, arrested the dead man’s son-in-law, Corporal Roy Kitchener Kennedy, 29, of the R.N.Z.A.F. When he went this morning to a hut on his property, about half a mile beyond Rolleston, the owner found Kennedy asleep, and notified the police. Two parties of detectives went to the scene and arrested Kennedy.