KILLED WITH AN AXE.
A CHILD MURDERED.
MURDERER SHOOTS HIMSELF. TRAGEDY NEAR MASTERTON. Press Association, MASTERTON, September 10. A double tragedy occurred some time yesterday in Fernridge, near Masterton, a little child being murdered. The murderer subsequently committed suicide. It appears that the three-year-old son of Mr and Mrs McKenzie was last seen by his mother after lunch yesterday, when he went out to a paddock in which a youth on the farm, Edward Hay, was working. Hay later returned to the house without the child. He was sent to look for the child, but came back without the boy. Shortly afterwards, Hay disappeared, taking with him a gun belonging to Mr McKenzie. A search was at once instituted, and to-day the child was found dead, having apparently been struck on the head with an axe. The body of Hay was found with a gunshot wound in the head.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2051, 10 September 1920, Page 8
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