WANGANUI RIVER.
CLAIMS TWO MORE VICTIMS. (By Telegraph — Press Association.) WANGANUI, Last Night. Two cases of disappearance- were reported to the police to-day. The first was that of William Osborne, aged 70, who went to the river bank to get firewood last Thursday, and has not been.seen since. He had no relatives, and had sometimes remarked to the people with whom he -boarded life was not worth living. The other case was that of Margaret O'Connor, aged forty, housekeeper for John- Atkinson, a drover. When Atkinson left home this morning, she seemed all right, but when he returned she was missing, and her footsteps were found leading to the river bank. The river has evidently claimed two more victims*
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19130827.2.25.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
119WANGANUI RIVER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in