MAN FOUND SHOT
WHARE BURNT TO GROUND
Walking through his front gate shortly after 5 o'clock on Thursday morning Mr. A. Middleton, of Pukekohe Hill, found the body of a man lying on the footpath,'and attached to the gate by a thin rope was a single-barrelled shotgun, states the ' {< Auckland Star." Mr. Middleton • did not go near the body, but immediately rang for the police. Sergeant J. T. Cowan and Constable W. Mawhinney, accompanied by Dr. A. T. Begg, arrived shortly afterwards.
The body was found to be that of Ernest Werner, aged 45, who lived" on Pukekohe Hill, and who was a native of Switzerland. He had apparently been dead for about half an hour. There was a shotgun wound in the region of the heart, and death had apparently been instantaneous. , Shortly after the finding of the body it wag discovered that his whare, situated about half a mile away, had been burnt clown and was still smouldering. The police searched the remains of the whare.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 22
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168MAN FOUND SHOT Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 22
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