THE PLUMMER TRAGEDY.
[press association.] Auckland, September 1.
In pector Broham and Deteotive Kirby wont to Hunua to-day and inspect°d tho sceno of tho shooting of Plummeiv They are satisfied that Piummer was shot accidentally, as owing to tlio height and impenetrable character of the gorse in tho vicinity, ho could not possibly bo 6een by Constable McKnight from where that officer fired, They examined settlers and took the statements of those who had visitel tlio spot next morning, and they stated that I hero were no traces of blood near the macrocarpa tree from which Plummet' dropped, or traces of any blood at nil, and that the story us to his being mortally wounded at tha treo and retreating to the drain where lie died, was unfounded, Tho locality is so widely covoied wiih gorse eight feet high that it may be wteks before Plummer's gun is found, if atall, I
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4208, 2 September 1892, Page 3
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152THE PLUMMER TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4208, 2 September 1892, Page 3
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