FOUND DEAD
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TE KUITI, This Day. Oswald Campbell Johnstone, aged 22, a son of a well-known farmer of Piopio, was found dead with a gunshot wound in his chest at 9 o'clock on. Saturday night. The deceased left home at 7 o'clock to "shoot hawks. As his mother i became anxious, a search was made, and his body was found on one side of a. fence, and the gun on the other, half a mile from home. Evidently the gun 'had been discharged when drawing it through the fence. An inquest was held on Sunday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 8
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106FOUND DEAD Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 8
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