SHOOTING FATALITY.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Christchurch, this day. A totjng farmer named Roberb Edwards, aged 25, unmarried, was found dead near Kaiapoi wibh a gunshob wound. Ho had been suffering from influenza and had complained of pains in the head. He took a gun from bhe house wibb the intenbion of shoobing swamp hens as the day was too web for harvesbing. When 100 yards from the' house a shot was heard, and a child proceeding to the Bpob found him lying oh hia back near a lagoon. Death must have been instantaneous. No further particulars are available.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 5
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98SHOOTING FATALITY. Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 5
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