DEATH BY GUN-SHOT.
FARMER'S SAD END. [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DANNEVIEKE. Friday. . Mr. Thomas W. Ellingham, one of th« original settlers of Whetukura, was found dead this morning alongside his motor-car, near Ormondvills, with a gunshot wound in his head, A double.b&rreiled gun was in the car, with one cartridge discharged. Deceased bad been on Lis way to Daunevirke. He was » well-known farmer, a member of the JDannevirke A. and P. Associating, w** and repatriation bodies, and Waipawai Hospital Board. At the inquest evidence was gprtn thai, the financial position of the deceased was satisfactory. The coroner found thai death was due to r gunshot woTSid, there being nr.-t sufficient evidence to 4kw" how? the dl*i.liarge of tSe guu v>as caus,:
FOUND WITH THROAT CUT. [BX TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATE.; j HASTINGS. B'rieWDaniel. Wallace, aged 64, residing with h'j wif«- and son is Hastings, was found «:t!i Lis, throat cut this morning. Ha 1 wi b&sit hi iH-hss?tlr, and %nd had also been out «* srori;.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17889, 17 September 1921, Page 6
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