DEATH OF SETTLER.
BODY MUTILATED BY DOG. B s Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, Ant'd 30. David Lynch, a selector near '.I nice, had been missing for .some days. When ;t policeman ami doctor broke into his house, they were savagely attacked by a large kangaroo dog. They saw Lynch’s body tying on the floor,, with the head blown off, and a gun alongside. They had to shoot the dug before they could gain tin entrance. Then they discovered that a large portion of the hotly had been consumed by the dog during the live days it bad been locked in the room, .since Lynch’s death.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 3 May 1926, Page 10
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110DEATH OF SETTLER. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 3 May 1926, Page 10
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