OLD MAN FOUND DEAD IN LAKE ELLESMERE.
About 4 p.m. yesterday an old man, William John Putnam, seventy-two years of age, was found dead in two feet of water at Lake Ellesmere. Putnam, who is an ex-stevedore and well know’n in Lyttelton, after his retirement made a practice for many .years of visiting Lake Ellesmere in the duck-shooting seasons. This year he went out to the lake accompanied by a young man, Roy Stratford Ilollis, of Christchurch. Yesterday the pair w’ere shooting from a mai-mai about two hundred yards oil the shore. The younger man left his companion early in the afternoon to return ashore. After about two hours he took a pair of glasses and focussed them on the mai-mai, wher6 he had left his mate. He could not see any signs of him. Taking a boat, he rowed out to the mai-mai, and after searching for a short time discovered the body in the w’ater about twelve yards from the door of the hidingplace. It is believed that the old man died of heart failure. He had a serious attack on Friday night.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 7
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185OLD MAN FOUND DEAD IN LAKE ELLESMERE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17837, 4 May 1926, Page 7
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