MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH
OF FARMER KILLED NEAR CARTERTON. Carterton, August 9. Peter Anderson, farmer, of Carrington, aged 42 years, was found dead three miles from his home at 10 o’clock last night. • Deceased left home in the morning 'to attend to rabbit and opossum traps, taking a double-barrelled shotgun with him. When he failed to return by six o’clock a t search party was organised. The traps were visited and some distance away a gun was found on the ground, both barrels having been discharged. A mile further on the body was discovered in a shallow watercourse where deceased had evidently crawled to drink and collapsed. An examination revealed a severe gunshot wound above the right knee and another in the right breast. Deceased was a well-known rifle and gun shot and had been familiar with firearms all his life. How the accident occurred is a mystery.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3676, 11 August 1927, Page 4
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147MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3676, 11 August 1927, Page 4
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