FARMER FOUND SHOT
APPARENTLY SLIPPED LYING BENEATH BANK [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION*] INVERCARGILL. Friday A farmer of Scott's Gap, MiV Robert Leggett Dickson, married, aged 48, was found shot tliis afternoon with a double-barrelled shotgun beside him. When he was shot lie was wearing gumboots, and on the bank above where the body was fojjittfc there were two marks, such as would have been caused by his slipping. In doing so the gun may have been accidentally discharged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 12
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77FARMER FOUND SHOT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 12
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