TRAGEDY ON FARM
WOMAN FOUND SHOT
DEATH IN HOSPITAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAWERA, This Day.
With a .22 calibre rifle beside her and a bullet wound in the chest, Mrs. Alice Bertha Andrews was found by her husband outside their farmhouse at Mere Mere yesterday afternoon. She was admitted to hospital and died there last evening.
It is understood that the deceased made a statement that she intended to shoot birds and accidentally shot herself. No further details are available.
Mr. Andrews left home at 11 a.m. to do some harvesting, and returned at 3 p.m.' He found his wife lying seriously wounded near the house. A doctor ordered her removal to hospital.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 10
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113TRAGEDY ON FARM Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 10
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