MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 169, 18 July 1908, Page 5

MURDER AND SUICIDE.

MAN SHOOTS HIS BABY AND

HIMSELF

, f>KESS ASSOCIATION.]

TE AWAMUTU, July 18, • On Friday a tragedy - occurred at Maungaiautare, ten miles beyond Kitikihj, when Frank Mason, of Mason Bros., runholders, shot himself and his infant son.

; Constable Lander, weniT to Maungatautare immediately on receipt of the news, and returned late last evening.1 On entering: Mason's house a ghastly spectacle met his eyes. A little baby boy. Mason's only child, aged ten , months, lay in the centre of the floor with his head shattered by, a gunshot wound,, whilst the father's body lay beside the Nioor, with a bullet-wound just below the left ear. '

, Mason had v been Jn New Zealand +vv.three years. His wife was in -ne nouse^ when the shooting took ribl naturally suffered ter-