DEERSTALKER SHOT
FATAL EXPEDITION
(By Telegraph—J.ress Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Tragedy overtook, two men who •were out deer-stalking in the Malyern district yesterday afternoon when one slipped and accidentally shot the other, the injury proving fatal. The dead man was Henry Tuck, aged 35, a shearer at Mount Algidus Station.
1 Tuck and his companion went out yesterday in. tfie back-country on a deer-stalking expedition and had travelled some miles when the accident occurred. His companion apparently slipped, the gun discharging, and the charge struck. Tuck in the left thigh. Immediately the other man set out on the long journey to the station for assistance, but when a party arrived back Tuck .was dead. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 11
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114DEERSTALKER SHOT Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 11
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