FARMER SHOOTS HIMSELF
TRAGEDY NEAR SPRING CREEK. .;, , <1I TELEUKAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) . BLENHEIM, This Day!'. - A tragedy occurred at Spring Creek on .Saturday, night,, a well-known..farmer named George-Henry Johnstone, residing near Whittle's Bend, being found shot on the verandah of the house of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ada Redwood. Mrs. Johnstone had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Redwodd; and Jolmstone went to the" house about 6.30 p.m. and asked her to return home. She did not do so,, but left. Mrs. Redwood's house shortly afteK Johnstone apneare to have returned home, but about 9.30 p.m. the inmates of Mrs. Redwood's house heard a noise on the verandah, and discovered that he had shot himself through the chest, there being a huge wound under tlie heart. His condition was hopeless. The man-was admitted to the -Wairau Hospital, where he died four or five hours later: .
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 13, 16 July 1923, Page 8
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