TWO FATALITIES
Press Association.—By Telegraph. TIMARU, Oct. 12.
An inquest was held to-day on the death of Ernest Shaw, aged 19, son of a'Woodbury farmer, and a member of the Territorials. Deceased, who was in good health and spirits, went out with a pea rifle on Sunday morning and on Monday his body was found in the scrub shot through the heart. The position of the body indicated that deceased had probably slipped down a steep bank some 12 feet high. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death.
John Leitch, aged 66, a farmer near Pleasant Point was found drowned in the Opihi river on Sunday. There was no evidence as to how he had come to the river. The verdict was accidentally drowned.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12916, 13 October 1914, Page 5
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