

Duncan Munro had suffered from increasingly worse epileptic fits for years which developed into a religious mania. He was employed by his step-father, businessman and former Mayor of Tauranga, James Bodell. Munro was certified insane after he tried to annoint his newborn son by breaking a kerosene lamp over his head. His mother had him released after six months and he returned to his family in Tauranga where he murdered his wife and children on 9 February 1892. Munro was acquitted on the grounds of insanity. This was the first case of murder by a European in Tauranga - Debbie McCauley, 22 June 2013 http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/tauranga_local_history/topics/show/1398
The four killed:
The family were buried in the Tauranga Anglican Cemetery.
Newspaper Report: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BOPT18920210.2.6