DOMINION NEWS.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
FATAL ACCIDENT. CARTERTON. Aug. 9.
Petc-r Anderson, farmer, of Carrington, aged 42, was found dead three miles from home at 10 o’clock last night. Deceased left his home in the morning to attend the rabbit and opossum traps, taking a double barrelled shut gun with him. Failing to return by six o'clock a search -party was organised and the traps visited. Some distance away a gun was found on the ground, both barrels discharged. A mile further on the body was discovered in a shallow watercourse, where deceased evidently crawled to drink and collapsed. An examination revealed a severe gunshot wound above the right knee and another on the right breast. Deceased was a. well known rifle and gun shot and familiar to firearms all his life. How the accident occurred is a mystery. The body was removed to his home.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1927, Page 3
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147DOMINION NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1927, Page 3
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