VICTIM OF SHOOTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 2

VICTIM OF SHOOTING

CALIFORNIAN MURDER. RELATIVES IN WELLINGTON Considerable interest was aroused in Wellington in connection with the cabled account of the murder in .his garden at Santa Cruz (California) of Air. Joseph Morgan Grace. He was, a nephew of the Into Mr. W. 11. (trace, of San Francisco, prominently known in the American shipping world, Sand said to be related to a family of the same name in New Zealand. This statement, together with the fact that the age of the victim. (57 years) coincided, mado some people conclude that the murdered man was Mr. Morgan Grace, tson of the late Hon. Dr. Morgan Stanislaus Grace, C.M.G., M.L.C., who resided for half a century in Hawkestone street, Wellington, and a brother of Mesdarries lan Duncan, I*'. G. Dalzicll, and C. P. White, of Wellington. This was found not, to be the ease. A relationship, however, does exist. Mr. W. R. Grace, ofj San Francisco, is an uncle of the, ladies mentioned, therefore they and. the victim of the crime wore cousins*. Mr. W. E. Grace had other brothers in the United States, and the assumption is that the murdered man was a son of one of. them. Mr. Morgan Grace, who was born in the old family- residence in Hawkestone street, left New Zealand more than .10 years ago, after having been in the employ of Levim and Company for n short time.