THE MARTINBOROUGH TRAGEDY.
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The Wairarupa News, in reporting the accidental shooting of Stubbs, by his companion, Hawke, sbys that in the early morning of Monday a stag was wounded, and the two huntsmen eagerly followed the trail. They saw their quarry enter some scrub. Stubbs asked Hawke to wait while ho followed the stag, but Hawke said be would go into the scrub, and as the deer emerged from < the other side Stubbs could get a shot at it, Stubbs agreed and Hawke tramped on. After going through the scrub, and seeing no sign of the wounded animal, Hawke turned to go back to Stubbs. SVhen in the middle of the scrub patob he heard a rustling and crackling of twigs and oaugbfc sight of a blown mass moving rapidly through the scrub. He fired immediately, and, seeing the object fall, he ran up. To his horror he discovered that he bad mortally wounded his aompaniun, Stubbs, who had entered the scrub so as to come up witn Hawke again and compare notes. Hawke immediately returned to Firinua, and ; a telephone message was sent to Constable Sheary, of Martin borough, who at r once made arrangements for the removal of the body to Martin borough.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8118, 12 April 1906, Page 6
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207THE MARTINBOROUGH TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8118, 12 April 1906, Page 6
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