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FARM WORKER’S BODY FOUND. THEORY OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. By Telegraph—Press .Association-. Wanganui, Feb. 23. George Barnum. Tremaine, aged 17, was found dead in a lonely-gully, in the Ngutawera district yesterday, the cause of death being a bullet wound in the stomach; ' ' ■ ■ ' '' Tremaine, who was a farm hand employed on Mr. S. Brewer’s Waikare property, went pig shooting with a rifle on Thursday afternoon. He was not missed until early this morning. and a search resulted in the discovery of the body a mile from the homestead. When the body was found his dogs, were keeping watch, and there was a Polled Angus bull in the vicinity. The theory is that Tremaine may have lost his footing with the result that the rifle was discharged. His mother lives at Wanganui.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1935, Page 5
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