PUKEKAWA MURDER

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170317, 13 September 1920, Page 7

PUKEKAWA MURDER

35 ARREST MADE. Par Press Association. AUCKLAjNTD, September 12. The arrest was effected, on Saturday, afternoon wt Tuakau of a farm labourer named Samuel John Thorn, on the 1 -charge of murdering Sydney Seyino ir Eyre, at Pukekawa on the night of August 24, by shooting . ]iim in bed ( through a window. Thorn was conveyed Jto Auckland in custody on Saturday j evening, and will be> brought- up at the j Police Court to-morrow morning. Tlie arrested man is 33 years of a.ge. ' He is married, but has for some time been living apart from his wife and iamiiy of six children. While Eyre was on active service for over ' two years Thorn managed the farm for Mrs Eyre. In July, Eyre having returned, Thorn I went to work at Glenmuirray, IS miles from the Eyre homestead. He had been forking, there for about six weeks when the murder was committed, and during that period he paid three visits to Eyre's. A double-barrelled shot Lain and • some ammunition were found in Thorn'- '■ whare, and these have been submitted ito an expert, whose report is in the j hands of the police. It is understood It-bat the authorities are'satisfied that j only one shot was fired, and that a

j special kind of cartridge was uted. I Some pellets found in the murdered mam's room are in the possession of the police. It is understood that the police investigations established three points—(l~) The murder was not committed for robbery, (2) the perpetrator must have been acquainted with the house end its Kun-ouiidms;s, and (3) the allot -wasfired outside the house.