Clarence Brooks

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wife & son of Errol James Brooks

19 March 1945

Mrs Ethelwyn Florence Brooks, aged 40 and a son, Clarence Brooks, aged 10, were fatally shot on Mr E. J. Brooks' farm at Matarawa at 4.45 p.m. A daughter, Nura May Brooks, aged 16, was admitted to the Greytown Hospital with a bullet wound in an arm.

A 13 year-old boy as been arrested and will appear this afternoon on a charge of murder.

It is understood that Mrs Brooks was shot while reading on a bed and that her son Clarence, while writing a letter, was shot through the bathroom window. A .22 repeater rifle was used. Mr Brooks was in the milking sheds when the shooting occurred.

* charged with the murder was 13 year old son, Noel Ingram Brooks (1932-1956)

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