MAN FOUND DEAD
TRAGEDY ON FARM. SHOTGUN FOUND BESIDE BODY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 21. Albert Edward Thornton, aged 37, a single man, residing in Harewood Road, was found dead beside a fence on his farm this afternoon. A shotgun, with one barrel discharged, was beside him. Mr Thornton left home at 9 a.m. to feed the horse and also shoot rabbits at his farm, which is about one and a half miles from his home. He said he would be back about 10.30 for morningtea, but as he had not returned by 1 p.m., his father, becoming anxious, telephoned another son, Mr Percy Thornton. The latter went to his brother’s farm, and after noting that the horse had been fed, followed footsteps across a ploughed paddock till he came to the fence where he found his brother dead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 4
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140MAN FOUND DEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 4
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