MAN FOUND DEAD
A former well-known footballer, William Harry Ross, aged 39, was found dead on a shelf half-way down a gully at Irishtown, Thames. He had a bullet wound in the right temple and a .22 rifle was lying beside the body. Mr. Ross, in the course of his Rugby career, played halfback for the New Zealand University team on a tour of Australia in 1922.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 11
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67MAN FOUND DEAD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20119, 13 December 1939, Page 11
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