HOWICK SHOOTING TRAGEDY
funeral of the victims.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Evidently Henry John Millen, who shot his wife and then himself at Howick on Saturday morning, had decided to end both lives. In a letter he left to his only .son he stated that he was tired of all the worry and trouble. "Your uncle will look after' you,” the note concluded. * The funeral of the two victims of the tragedy took place yesterday afternoon at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Flat « Bush, Papatoctoe. A long cortege followed the two hearses and many friends and relatives awaited the arrival of the funeral at the cemetery, which is situated in a beautiful part of the district. Many floral tributes covered the caskets of the victims.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1930, Page 9
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