PRAYER AND FAREWELL
TRAGEDY ON EAST COAST NOTE DISCOVERED ON ONE BODY. COMPLAINT OF TREATMENT. SHOOTING OF MAORI COUPLE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, Oct. 16. Following the murder of George Smith and his wife and the apparent suicide of George Taylor, a note written in Maori and signed by Taylor was found on his body. Translated this read as follows: “It is on account of the bad treatment I recSved from this woman which decided me to do away with the three of us. Good-bye all.” Also on a piece of paper was a prayer. It is presumed that Taylor lay in waiting for the Smiths as they came along the beach, there being signs in the creekbed that somebody had been sitting there for a time.
Hori Smith received the full charge of the shot in the face, neck and chest, apparently fired from a range of 10 or 15 yards. , Mrs. Smith was shot in the middle of the back at close range, and must have been killed instantly. Nearby was a small fire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 9
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