ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
TRAGIC HUNT !!NG ERROR VERDICT AT INQUEST [by telegraph—p:ft:sss association] HOiKITIKA, Tuesday
That William Janies Webb, aged 23, single, was accidentally killed in the bush at Lake ICanieri, 12 miles from Hokitika, on Saturday evening by John Frederick Andrews, who fired a rifle at what he thought- was a deer, but which struck Webb, killing; him instantly, was the verdict returned by the coroner at the inquest yesterds.y. The men had go;ie out in different directions, and it is not known how deceased came to the locality where the fatality occurred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22027, 6 February 1935, Page 13
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