Found Dead Beside a Water Course
CARTERTON FARMER’S FATE MYSTERY OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS Press Association. CARTERTON, To-day. Peter Anderson, a farmer, aged 42, was found dead three miles from home at 10 o’clock last evening. Deceased left home in the morning to attend to rabbit and opossum traps, taking a double-barrelled shotgun with him. On his failing to return by six o'clock a search party was organised and the traps visited. Some distance away the gun was found on the ground with both barrels discharged. A mile further on Anderson’s body was discovered beside a shallow watercourse, where the deceased had evidently crawled to drink and had collapsed. An examination revealed a severe gunshot wound above the right knee and another in the right breast. The late Mr. Anderson was a well-known rifle and gun shot and had been familiar with firearms all his life. How the accident occurred is a mystery. The body was removed to deceased’s home where an inquest was held today.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 11
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165Found Dead Beside a Water Course Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 11
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