SHOT DEAD.
FATHER’S MAD ACT TRAGEDY AT A WEDDING MAN-HUNT IN THE MOUNTAINS United Press Assn.—»?iec. Tel. Copyright (Received August 24, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 23. A message from Merced (California) states that a two-days’ man-hunt in the mountains, in which an aeroplane horses, dogs and trackers collaborated, ended in the arrest of a Spaniard, Ygnacio Ayerza (51), who is charged with shooting dead his daughter, Theresa (18), also her fiance, Julian Galan (32). It is alleged that Ayerza and his wife were driving the couple to their wedding when Ayerza quarrelled with Galan, and shot him. Theresa was also shot dead by her father, who fied to the mountains. Pursuers surrounded him, closing in in response to signals from an aeroplane.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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