POLICEMAN SHOT WHILE INVESTIGATING THE DAVENPORT MURDERS Top: The farm cottage at Tatuanui, where Constable T. Heeps, of Morrinsville, was .hot on Saturday by a Maori, Henare Hona (portrait? inset), while the constable was conducting a search of the Maori s effects in tte course of investigations into the murders of four member* of the Davenport family at Rang.toto. Constabe Heeps succumbed to his wound. When threatened with police capture yesterday, Hona turned his gun on himself and died later from a self-inflicted injury. The lower photograph shows some of the searchers at breakfast yesterday. From left: Constable Fry. Otorohanga; Senior-Sergeant Carroll, Rotorua; Constable Hodge, Morrinsville, and Senior-Sergeant Power, Hamilton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21937, 22 October 1934, Page 11
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110POLICEMAN SHOT WHILE INVESTIGATING THE DAVENPORT MURDERS Top: The farm cottage at Tatuanui, where Constable T. Heeps, of Morrinsville, was .hot on Saturday by a Maori, Henare Hona (portrait? inset), while the constable was conducting a search of the Maori s effects in tte course of investigations into the murders of four member* of the Davenport family at Rang.toto. Constabe Heeps succumbed to his wound. When threatened with police capture yesterday, Hona turned his gun on himself and died later from a self-inflicted injury. The lower photograph shows some of the searchers at breakfast yesterday. From left: Constable Fry. Otorohanga; Senior-Sergeant Carroll, Rotorua; Constable Hodge, Morrinsville, and Senior-Sergeant Power, Hamilton. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21937, 22 October 1934, Page 11
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