MAN AND WIFE SHOT DEAD
CASE OF MURDER & SUICIDE
HOWICK TOWNSHIP TRAGEDY •THE COUPLE LIVING APART By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, August 9. Henry John Millen, aged 39, a farmer of Pakuranga, shot his wife, Hilda Millen, aged 35, and then shot himself at Howick township this morning. The couple, who had one son, had been living apart. The wife had been living with her sister-in-law in Howick. The husband arrived about nine o’clock in a car and talked to his wife on the verandah. He then went to the car and took out a shotgun. His wife, seeing the gun, started to run away, but the man caught her and fired the gun. The first time he missed and he fired again and shot her through the heart.
He then took off his coat and overcoat, reloaded the gun in both barrels, bumped the gun in the roadway and fell dead. A little girl of 13 witnessed the whole tragedy.
Millen had owned trotting horses, the best known of which was Lord Roberts.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 9
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