FALL INTO RAVINE
MARTINELLI INQUEST I Per Press Association. ] NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 26. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest in Stratford to-day into the death of Frank Martinelli, single, aged 29, who fell 50 feet to death near Matau, East Taranaki on Sunday while pig hunting. Alfred Inder described how Martinelli followed the dogs into the busn to see what they were barking at., inder heard a crash, and subsequently Martinelli’s body was found in a gully. Martinelli, from the indications, must have slid 100 feet before falling ten feet into a ravine. Help was secured, but it took three hours to get the body out of the bush.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 255, 27 October 1937, Page 6
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113FALL INTO RAVINE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 255, 27 October 1937, Page 6
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