YOUNG ASHBURTON MAN FOUND DEAD ON FARM.
Albert James Blee, aged twenty, a son of Mr J. P. Blee Ashburton, was found dead in a paddock shortly before 11 a.m. 3’esterday, with a bullet wound in his forehead. A .22 Bayard semiautomatic rifle was lying across his left leg. He was last seen leaving the house at 9 a.m. with the rifle in his hand. He was then intending to look round the sheep. The body was discovered by his father in a paddock about five hundred yards from the house. An inquest will be held this afternoon.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19237, 26 November 1930, Page 16
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98YOUNG ASHBURTON MAN FOUND DEAD ON FARM. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19237, 26 November 1930, Page 16
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