FOUND DEAD
YOUNG MAN'S TRAGIC END.
(»I TELEGRAPH.— PRESS AlSOCimjX.) ASHBUBTON, This Day. Yesterday morning at Fairfield, Albert Baden John Willis (23) was found dead in a plantation shot through the. heart. A pea rifle was lying alongside the body Willis was the son of a family long resident in' the district. Yesterday morning deceased caused concern by not peiv" taking of breakfast, and gave no reason; At 10.30 o'clock he went out with a pea rifle, and later on a letter, which he had left at home, was. found. This caused alarm, and search was made immediatei y> a, , the body of the >'oung man was f? und by Mlles Sprott in the middle of 'tn2 county, council plantation, about a -c from hls home- Dr- W. J. Mullin was suram°necl. but life was extinct. An >nquest was held at Willis's house this mornlnS. before the Coroner. Mr. J. .w- E^ ldence °i identification was i given, and the inquest was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 152, 26 December 1923, Page 8
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163FOUND DEAD Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 152, 26 December 1923, Page 8
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