MELANCHOLY DEATH OF MR W. J. YOUNG. Condensed from Daily Southern Cross.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 144, 10 April 1873, Page 2

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF MR W. J. YOUNG. Condensed from Daily Southern Cross.

Ox the arrival of the Waikato coach last night we roceivel a few words — thoy did not amount to hues — fiom our Ofcahuhu correspondent, which had been hurriedly given to private hands jiwt as the coach was staring for Auckland from that village. The words stated th^Jit had just then been reported that Mr W. J Young, of the Grange, was de id, and tb.it he h.id been shot. The laconic communication did not state how tlu shooting had taken place, whether it had been accidental or otherwise. On lcceipt of the note a leportor was at ouco despatched from this ollice on horseback, to ascertain some particulars respecting such a startling statement. Ou his return we ' learned that between four and live o'clock, yesterday afternoon word was brought into Ot ihuhu that Mr W, J. Young had shot himself whilst wild (hick shooting. It appe.ii 8 that he had jronc out with his ieivant John Dudley Slack , saying he would go to thu creek an 1 see if he could ahoot a wild duck. On their way thither Mr Young frequently complained of being tinwoll, and sud lie would take anjthing tint would do him q <od. In their w.i) wms a Hock of t.une geese, winch .\lr Young fiied into, and woun led one, saying at the time tint was just what they wanted. When they arnvol at the pond or cieek no ducks were to h* 1 seen Mr Youug sxrl he would stay and wait (or a chance of getting one He again 10 untamed of feeling very unwell Ho then told Slack to brins; up the colts, that ho might pat them and speak to them Ab Mr Young was rather s.nguUr in liis habits at times, Slack thought las bm( tumour on this occasion nothing extraordinary. Stack then went into the nc\.t paddock, and ju-,t sifter arriving there he heard a shot, bat thinking that Mr Young had fired at a duck he thought nothing of it. lie was at this time not above 300 yards from Mr Young. A young man named Patrick Moran, who was about a quarter of a mile on the other bide of Mr Young, heard the shot and saw him fall, and immediately made -lgns to Slack to run to his assistance. The man ran to his master and found Win bleeding on tho ground, gasping for breath and his eyes staring The gun, which was a double-barrelled piece, was found lying bjßhis right side, the muzzle between Ins arm and the body. Tuero was a largo wound on hio right side immediately below the' ribs, from which the blood was flowing freely. Slack atoneo. sent Moran to the house lor hsfcistance, and ho himself ran to' Mr Taylors farm house close ty , and bent a boy into Otahuhu tor Dr Elmslie In the meantime Moran brought a spring-trap from Mr Young's premises ; and as they were rinsing him into it, he breathed his hist. He was taken to tho house, and put into a bed. Tho doctor soon after arrived, and pronounced' life to. be extinct.