Father Shot

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 141, 17 June 1936, Page 7

Father Shot

Girl Attempts to Help Mother TRAGEDY NEAR NELSON Per Pres 3 Association. NELSON, Last Night. Joseph Caldwell, aged 46, of Kiwi, met his death this morning just before 9 o’clock under tragic circumstances, being shot with a .303 rifle by his 15-ycar-old daughter. Caldwell, who was a wellknown resident of the Tadmor district, was a 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 the residents of the district that he frequently became rather violent. This morning, it is alleged, he was attacking his wife when his daughter became alarmed and putting a cartridge in the .303 rifle fired it off, it is thought, to frighten hex' fathei*, but the bullet entered Caldwell’s neck killing him instantaneously. Mr. Winter, who was staying at Kiwi with. Mi*. R. Ricketts, the nearest neighbour to the Caldwells, heard the shot and the scream and went across the paddocks to investigate. Deceased’s daughter ran down to the railway line which runs just behind Caldwell’s house and informed the linesmen who Avere passing on a trolley that she had shot her father. The police at Nelson Avere informed and Inspector F. Lewin, accompanied by Sergeant W. 11. Si mister and Constable Houston, of Wakefield, is proceeding to Kiwi to make investigations. Kiwi is about 45 miles from Nelson.