DAVENPORT ESTATE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 209, 23 November 1934, Page 6

DAVENPORT ESTATE.

KANGITOTO MURDER CASE Involved Legal Procedure. Auckland, Nov. 10. Victims oi the Rangitoto murders a few weeks ago, the Davenport family have left an estate valued at £20,000. The will of the late Genu an Mortin Davenport, aged 70, father of" the family, has been filed in the Supreme Court for the granting of probate and sworn at between £14,000 and £15,000. Under the will of the senior Davenport, a liiV interest in his estate >yas. left to Ms wife, and on her death to their two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Diveiijb'ort, senior were proved to have been killed at the same time. Edward Lancashire Davenport aged 28, who died in the To Kuiti hospital two days after his parents had been murdered, and who was also a victim of lleiiare llona's murders, was the sole survivor until his death, and came into the whole estate. His brother had been killed before him. On the death of Edward Davenport the entire estate descended to an uncle and aunt of Edward's, Mr. Albert Edward Davenport, of Talipng, New South Wales, and Mrs. J. Stanford, a Widow, of "Wellington. Already Mr. A. E. Davenport, of New South Wales, with the consent of Mrs. Stanford, has filed an application for letters of administration. .There seems no doubt that they will share the estate equally.