MT. RUAPEHU TRAGEDY.
BINGHAM’S BODY FOUND
(Per Press Association.) Ohalcune, March 27. Word was received from a search party about five o’clock this afternoon to the effect that the body of Bingham had been recovered about 9.15 this morning by a party consisting ot Messrs Blyth, Christie, Hyde, Tansey and Carr. The body was found in about five feet of water, about half a mile above the waterfall and seven miles up the creek from the viaduct. The party which found the body returned and loft the body to be brought ’in by a relay party, winch is expected to arrive here to-morrow. The stream where the body was found is very rough, and Bingham apparently met his death by falling over a ledge. The body is not badly knocked about, but there is a wound on the forehead, probably caused by striking a boulder in his fall. The inquest will probably bo held to-morrow.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 6
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155MT. RUAPEHU TRAGEDY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 68, 28 March 1913, Page 6
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