SHOOTING FATALITY
By Telegraph—Press Association
CHRISTCHURCH, June 7
Patrick Dempsey, aged 19, of 53 Burke street, was fatally injured when shooting in the Itakaia riverbed to-day. His gun accidentally discharged when he slipped in climbing a steep bank. Two companions carried him three miles to the nearest habitation, but Mr Dempsey died before they reached the house. Mr Dempsey was a single -man employed at Green’s bacon factory of whicli his father is manager.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 9
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