YOUTH FOUND SHOT DEAD
ALLEGED “TIFF” AT DANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Carterton, July 10. Roy Chapman, aged 18, son of Mrs. S. Swan, was found shot at an early hour this morning in a stable a hundred yards from the house. The youth had been to a dance at Kopuaranga. It is alleged that he had a tiff with a girl and that he shook hands with friends, intimating that they would not see him again. Then he camo home. At 3 a.m. his mother and brother both heard a shot. They went to investigate and found the lad lying in the stable with a shotgun alongside his body. Evidently ho had placed the gun in his mouth and blown his face away. An inquest is to be held.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1929, Page 23
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