OPOUA BAY FATALITY.
VICTIM VISITED FOXTON. In regard to a message from Auckland, concerning the finding at Opoua Bay of the body of D. Brown who was believed to be a resident of Palmerston N., inquiries in that town show that a. labourer named Brown, a native of Palmerston South, arrived in Palmerston N. from Greymouth early in August. He boarded at Excelsior House, and later went visiting friends in Foxton and Wanganui, staying at the boardinghouse in Palmerston North intermittently. He left there on a holiday to Auckland on September 16th. '
When found on Saturday, deceased had a bullet wound in the head and a repeating pea rifle was lying on the gyound at his feet. He had apparently been dead four or five hours. Deceased was a man of about 25 years of age, and about 5 feet 4 inches in height. He was and clean shaven, with reddish hair and blue eyes.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3543, 28 September 1926, Page 3
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155OPOUA BAY FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3543, 28 September 1926, Page 3
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