FARM TRAGEDY
MAN FOUND SHOT. Per Press Association. NELSON, June 1(5. Joseph Caldwell, aged 40, of Kiwi., met his death this morning just before 9 o’clock under tragic circumstances, being shot with a .303 rifle, allegedly fired by his 15-year-old daughter. Caldwell, who was a well-known resident of the Tadmor district, was <■. returned soldier, having served with the A.I.F. He suffered from the effects of gas while at the war, and at times suffered lapses of depression, it being alleged by residents oi the district that he frequently became rather violent.
This morning, it is alleged, he was attacking his wife when his daughter became alarmed. Putting a cartridge in a .303 rifle, she fired it off, it is thought, to frighten her father, but the I)u 1 let entered Caldwell’s neck, killing him instantaneously.
Mr Winter, who was staying at Kiwi with Mr R. Rickets, the nearest neighbour to the Caldwells, heard the shot and a scream and went across the paddocks to investigate. Deceased’s daughter ran down the railway line, which runs just behind Caldwell’s house, and informed some linesmen who were passing on a trolly that she had shot her father.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 2
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194FARM TRAGEDY Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 2
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