FOUND SHOT
DEATH OF FARMER'S WIFE. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) . HAWERA, December 3. With a .22 calibre rifle beside her and a bullet wound in her chest, Mrs Alice Bertha Andrews was found by her husband outside their larmhouse at Meremero yesterday afternoon. She was sent to hospital, where her death occurred last evening. It is understood that she made a statement that she intended to shoot birds, and accidentally shot herself. No further details
are available. The deceased’s husband left home at 11 a.m. to do some harvesting, and
returning at 3 p.m. he found his wife lying seriously wounded near' the house. The doctor who was called ordered her t -emov-al to hopsital, where * her death occurred shortly after her admission. It is understood the deceased's health had been causing her family concern for some time.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1938, Page 2
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