FARMER SHOT IN HEAD
FENCE AND LOADED GUN.
By Telegraph — Press Association
Christchurch, Last Night. At Kaikoura this evening the body of Harry Helmore Cower, aged 48 years, married, a retired farmer, was found in some lupins near the beach with the top of the head blown off. He left home at 3 o’clock to shoot rabbits. At 7 o’clock his wife, alarmed because he did not return, called friends to search for him. The body was found near a barbed wire fence and a double-barrelled gun with one barrel discharged was found standing upright against the fence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1929, Page 11
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