FURTHER DETAILS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43349, 14 July 1908, Page 3

FURTHER DETAILS.

' ,[ . , I I .The affair at 11.30, about the time the' night • shift were going \ on. Three mien were working in 1 No, ll level, viz., the two deceased j a man named John McCarron. i KicOaurron was; at the crosscut. 1 . deceased worked in the south ‘’-•facii”' < ;•• -;*V.. * t • • | • Chester had just left McCarron to help Lewis fire. He was absent for 1 ftbotit twenty minutes when McCarron braird the shots fired. He waited for . ~ his mates, and finding them not to be coming he went in to see what had ' happened. i ■ When he discovered Chester and •Irtnwiß they were both lying about 30 :.or.^Q i fe3k.j?TOy ; from the face. He went fcr and found another , ajate (Jamps. Coffey) and with the ! night shift assisted and liad both re- • nioved to Crosby’s. Hotel, where 1 iibtifr bodies remain awaiting the in-j / quest, which will probably take place' in, I Chester lived two or three hours' afterireaching the hotel. .His wife is 1 tending at -Drury. j