YOUNG MAN FOUND SHOT.
DISCOVERY BY MOTHER.
SEQUEL TO ALLEGED QUARREL
[by telegraph.—press association.]
CARTERTON. Wednesday
A. youth of 18, Roy Chapman, son of Mrs. S. SNvan, was found shot early this morning in a stable 100 yards from his home.
The youth had been at a dance at Kopuaranga and it is said that lio had a "tiff" with a girl. It is reported that ho shook hands with his friends and intimated that they would not seo him again. lie then went homo and at 3 a.m. His mother and brother both heard a sfiot. They went to investigate and found the lad lying dead in the stable, with a shotgun alongside his body. He had evidently placed the gun in his mouth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20304, 11 July 1929, Page 10
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