ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
FOUND SHOT,
( By Teleyraph—Per Press A ssociation)
OAM Al» U, February 18
Having declared his intention of shooting rabbits, James Douglas McKenzie, single, 24, a carpenter, unemployed, left his home with a pea ride yesterday afternoon and had not returned at dark. A search was instituted and his body was found near a wire fence, shot through the heart at short range. Presumably the rifle discharged when deceased was climbing through the fence.
BROWNING ACCIDENT
WANGANUI, Feb. 16
‘Michel Lilies, a single man, aged thirty-five, a native of County Clan;, Ireland, was drowned in the Waitotara iriiver 'near 'the unemployed Vmp last evening. Lillies went for a swim in the evening and did not return, a search remitting in the discovery ol the body this morning. Deceased had arrived in camp only last Saturday with a nuuibei of other unemployed men Irorn Aap'St.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1932, Page 6
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