FATHER DIES
FROM SON’S BULLET (Per Press Association, Copyright). AUCKLAND, June 26•After lingering for four days with a bullet wound in the head, Peter Hobson, aged 4.0, ot .East. Tamaki died in the hospital tins morning. Hobson was shot last Sunday morning by bis son, Peter, aged eighteen, who afterwords shot himself dead with the same pea rifle. The tragedy is believed to he the outcome ot domestic differences. Tiltwile had boon living apart, from her husband for about a. year. Recently she petitioned for divorce, but tailed, and according to her evidence at the preinmi.nary inquest, tins preyed on her son’s mind-
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1935, Page 6
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