ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
TIMARU, Tuesday,
An elderly man named Robert Drysdale committed suicide this morning on the roadside four miles from the town. He. sat on the road, placed the muzzle of a gun urtder his chin, and blew the left side of his face and neck away. Death was instantaneous. He was a well-known threshing machine proprietor. ...'.-'
TIMARU, this day,
At the inquest on Drysdale this morning it was shown that he had intended to shoot hares, and, the body being found at a gap in the fence, the jury concluded death was accidental and not suicide, through the trigger catching in gorse..
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 90, 17 April 1901, Page 2
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