WELL-KNOWN FARMER’S DEATH
KILLED BY A GUN-SHOT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dannevirke, September 16. Thomas W. Ellingham, one of the original settlers of Whetukura, was found dead this morning alongside a motor-car near Ormondville, with a gun-shot wound in his head and a double-barrelled gun in the car with one chamber' discharged. Deceased, who was en route to DanneI virke at the time of his death, was a well-known farmer, a member of the Daniovirke A. and P. Association, the Danpovirkp War and Repatriation Societies, nnd the Wairarapa Hospital Board. At the inoupst ’ evidence was given iffiat deceased’s financial position was satisfactory. The coroner found that death was due to a gunshot wound between the eyes, ’. but that there was hot sufficient evidence to show how the discharge of the fhot-gun which inflicted the injuries was caused.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 304, 17 September 1921, Page 8
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