A FARM TRAGEDY.
MAN FOUND SHOT DEAD
(Per Press Association.V
WHAKATANE, September 2
Nelson Semmens, aged about 30, a milker for Mr Webster at Oponriao, was found on the farm with the upper part of his head blown off. Particulars disclose that the deceased borrowed a gun from the homestead on the farm yesterday, saying he wanted it to shoot a hawk. On the man being missed the police were notified yesterday morning, and Constable Greenslade searched the farm and found the man's dead body on a cattle track leading to a lagoon. The shotgun was poin.ting to his head.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 9
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100A FARM TRAGEDY. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 9
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