ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
[Per Press Association.] Timaru,. October 12. An inquest was held to-day concerning the death of Ernest Shaw, aged 19, the son of a Woodbury farmer. The deceased went out with a pea-rifle on Sunday morning, arid on Monday the body- was found in the scrub, shot through the heart. The position of the body- indicated that deceased had probably slipped down a steep bank, some 12 feet high. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. John Leitch, aged 66, a farmer near Pleasant Point, was found drowned in the Opihi river on Sunday. There is no evidence to show how hb came to ho in the river, and at the inquest a Verdict of accidentally drowned was returned.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 48, 13 October 1914, Page 8
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121ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 48, 13 October 1914, Page 8
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