FATALLY SHOT
MOTHER AND YOUNG SON 13-YEAR-OLD BOY ARRESTED (P.A.) MASTERTON, Mar. 19. Mrs Ethelwyn Florence Brooks, aged 40, and her son, Clarence, aged 10, were fatally shot) on Mr E. J. Brooks’s farm at Matarawa at 4.45 p.m. yesterday, and a daughter, Nura, was admitted to the Greytown Hospital with a bullet wound in the arm. A 13-year-old boy was arrested and will appear in court on a charge of murder. It is understood that Mrs Brooks was shot while reading on her .bed. Her son, Clarence, who was writing a letter, was shot through the bathroom window. A .22 repeater rifle was used. Mr Brooks was in the milking shed when the shooting occurred.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 4
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