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(From Our Own Correspondent.')
TRAGEDY AT MAMAKU BUSHMAN KILLED BY DISCHARGE OF SHOTGUN BELIEVED THROWN FROM HORS
MAMAKU, this morning. A tragic discovery was made about 1 o'clock this morning when Mr. Fredericlc Sibley, aged about 52 years, a bushman, of Mamaku, was found lying dead on a bush road about five mifes from Mamaku. When Mr. Sibley, who was a married man, with one child, had not returned home at a late hour last night a search was 'instituted, his body being found lying o'n the- road. Details are at present meagre, but it is believed that Mr. Sibley was riding a horse and carrying a doublebarrelled gun, which was loaded. It is though't tbat he was thrown from the horse th'e guri being discharged by the fall, with fatal results, the top of the unfortunate man's head being blown off. The Rotorua police were immediately communicated with and Constables Kelly and Shilton left for the scene of the tragedy.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 160, 29 February 1932, Page 5
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163FOUND SHOT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 160, 29 February 1932, Page 5
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