A SUSPICIOUS CASE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 221, 4 October 1906, Page 2

A SUSPICIOUS CASE.

\ THE DEATH 01* A SCHOOLMASTER. EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY. THE HOUSjTrANSACKED. [press association.] OAMARU, 0ct..4! . It is believed that the death of Mr Rennie, the schoolmaster at Papakaio, resulted from foul play. • . The deceased lived alone, and yesterday morning the girl who had been accustomed to go to the house- to attend to the domestic needs found him dead in bed. The police were" acquainted, and found Rennie shot through the head while lying in bed, the bullet passing through the skull. Renriie's hands were folded across his breast, with the bed-clothes above them.. The house appeared to have] been ransacked, but" there'is no evidence to show that anything was. taken away.

No weapon was found in the house, and the position of the body precludes the idea that it is a case of Suicide. So far the whole affair is surrounded in mystery:- £ Itennie was aged 37, and of I'etiiing disposition. ; He. had. been- for. twelve years in - charge of the . school.■ t His mother resides near Dunedin. ;