TOMAHAWKED.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7662, 31 December 1914, Page 2

TOMAHAWKED.

A TRIPLE MURDER. TERR I R LE- DISCOVERY 'OX V NORTH,ERN FARM. \ '! RHITLER AND WIFE AND (JHlthY V’ KILLED. ' fwfis PALMERSTON N ]) w V Ad \ ice was received, by the yesterday evening that a horrihkpll' • (ripio murder had been committed’ Kiiahiue, presumably -on {Monday iJ L Jig. Thu victims .. were Mr JajSfef .vi. Cairn, fanner, and his ■ wife mv’tv' daughter. - - - TJio discovery was not made yesterday, but, as M’Caun was f icing in his cowslied, it was bjjJS# that he was milking at the than / ihe murder. It was evident llmt |i W Iwh il(d willi a loiimU/L It a|>pears that the murderer went to the house and ti 11.../ Al'Caim and her child. The bwbkg, were found lying i t i bed. Mrs M’Oaun ; ' ";is killi.it by a blow with a luma,- f hawk which sank into the, skull from \ eye to oye, F The nalure of the child’s wound*' was not- slated in 'the’message. f On the discovery of the tragedv, y cr .f3 geant Harvie, of Taihape,. and" * Con- - stalilu Essen, of Manga Wcka t went to . tlm scone o'f the murder. Detectives'*' biddells and Rhiirkc also left to investigate. Suspicions point lo a German farm.'' labourer who lias disappeared. [S (Ivtiahmo, whore, the murders wcmV committed. Is a dairy farming district' 1 in the Kiw-itca . Countv, ITT miles' north of ■Wellington, between ' Foildiuj'’ and Manga"ek H . it is near the Western hills of the Ruahinc Range.) fv