BRUTAL MURDER.
Ponsonby Postmaster Shot. KEYS STOLEN AND POST OFFICE ROBBED. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Last Night. A brutal murder was committed at L'onsonby on Saturday night, together with a robbery, at the Ponsonby Post Office. Tli© postmaster, Augustus Jmlward Braithwaite, aged 59 years, left his office about six o'clock and returned to his home on Shelly Beach Road, some ten minutes' walk away. His wife went visiting friends in the evening, and on returning about eight o'clock she found Braithwaite lying in the back portion of the house, shot through the throat and body.
The police discovered that the post office keys were missing, and on going to the post office found a window and door forced. The ' strong-room had been opened 1 , with the keys taken from the 'dead postmaster, and three cashboxes in the strongroom had been rifled. It is not thought that tlie sum secured was more than £100.
Deceased had been in the postaf service for about forty years, and was .it Ponsonby about eight or ten years.
Wlien found Braithwaite was lying face down towards tlie door of the room, and it is thought that he had: opened the door, when the murderer shot him down without warning.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 March 1920, Page 3
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