FARMER FATALLY SHOT.
DAUGHTER'S SAD DISCOVERY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CARTERTON. Tuesday. While Mr. Edwin Jamfes and his family were having tea last evening, the electric light and power failed, and inconsequence the whole family had to assist in completing the milking. A younger daughter, on returning to the house about eight o'clock, found her father sitting dead in an armchair in a front room with a pea-rifle between his knees and a bullet wound in the head. Mr. James was a well-known farmer of Parkvale and was 76 years of age. Ho leaves a widow and a family of nine, most of them adults.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19807, 30 November 1927, Page 10
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