ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
SHOOTING FATAL I,TY. The police received advice yesterday that a married man named William Halliday, of Heathcote Valley, Christchurch, was found dead in the bush at Papatowai, twenty miles from Owaka, yesterday morning with a gunshot wound in th© head. The deceased, wlui was 49 years of age, went shooting rabbits in the company of a relative, who lives at Dunedin. The two separated,and the deceased’s companion later heard two shots some distance away.When it was time to return’for lunch he went to meet his friend, and found him lying dead with a wound in the head. An inquest was held at Owaka < this afternoon. ' FARMER FOUND SHOT. A Masterton Association message states that Hugh Thomas Carswell, a dairv farmer, of West Taratahi, waa found dead early last evening, with the top of his head blown off and a .303 rifle lying alongside his body. He was a married man with no family.
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Evening Star, Issue 21960, 21 February 1935, Page 9
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156ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 21960, 21 February 1935, Page 9
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