PUKEKAWA TRAGEDY

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160737, 25 August 1920, Page 9

PUKEKAWA TRAGEDY

SETTLER MURDERED IN BED. SHOT THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW. (Per United Press Association,) AUCKLAND, August 25. Sidnye Claymore Eyre, a settler of Pukokawa, about seven miles front Tuakau, was murdered in his bed last night, evidently by a shot fired through an open window. Eyre, who was a married man with five children, retired with his wife to tin- bedroom at 9 p.m. They occupied separate beds in the same room. Eyre slept alongside or near the open window. About midnight his wife was awaken, ed by an explosion, and found her bus. band dead with the top of his hea{ blown nit. She sent her oldest hoys to the Po.~£ Office, from whence word reached Puke# kohe police, who left for the scene of the tragedy at 4 a.m. Eyre was two years on active service during the late war. Ho was a sheep farmer by occupation and a man of kindly disposition.