RUAPEHU TRAGEDY.
BINGHAM'S BODY FOUND. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) OHAKUNE, Last Night. Word was received from a .search party about 5 o'clock this afternoon, to the effect that the body of Mr Bingham had been recovered about 9.15 in the morning. The body was found in about five feet of water, about half a mile above the waterfall and seven mi let, up .the creek from the viaduct. The party, which found! the body, returned, and left the body to be brought in by a relay party, which is expected to arrive to-morrow. The -.stream where the body was found was very rough, and Bingham apparently met his death by falling over a ledge. The body is not badly knockedabout, but there i« a wound on " the forehead, probably caused by striking a boulder in the fall. An inquest will probably be held to-morrow.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 March 1913, Page 5
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143RUAPEHU TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 March 1913, Page 5
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