A TRAGEDY ON THE HILLS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 8

A TRAGEDY ON THE HILLS.

.POLICE "FIND" NEAR KAIWAERA'. About seven o'clock last .night, the police were informed that a man had been found on the hillside between, Eaiwarra and Ngahauranga with a, ballet wound in his forehead. Detectives Lewis and Cameron and Constable Wade were at anoe-dispatched to the scene in an express. The party returned about 9.30 run., and reported that the man had been found on;a very high spur, about a.mile from the Hutt Road, in an almost iaacoessible spot. They had the greatest, difficulty-, in removing him in a stretcher from his position to a hridlo-track, and then down to the road.:' In this task, valuable assistance was received from Messrs. Higginbottom Brothers; Mickiel Doyle,. John ltelaney, and . others. The track was extremely rough, but eventually the party Tieached the road, and deposited their helpless burden in the express, which at once proceeded to the hospital.

The man had apparently been drinking, as an empty whisky flask was found in one of his pockets. A Tcroliver was beside lrim. It ho/1 been loaded in two chambers, one of which had been discharged. A lot of cartridges also lay on the • |iotmd, near, by. No letters or otitar chie.to identification were found,- but .the man was well-dressed and appeared to be between. 22 and 23 years:of age. He is unconscious and the case presents' little hqpe of recovery- '. A'settler of Khandallah. has been reported as missing, but so far.as known at present there' is nothing to connect him with the tragedy.