SHOCKING FATALITY
FA AN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT WHILE OUT IMG HUNTING. BULLET REBOUNDS FROM TREE. (By Telesjranl'.—Threat Association.) CAMBRIDGE, this day. I A shocking lahality ooonrredi in. tho bush at To Miro, a lew in:lev* from Cambridge, yesterday, when Hugh Rae was accidentally kilted. Rac and a i'riojid uanu-d Cook wont out pig shooting, and as a pig ran between them both fired at once. It is thought that, tho bullet ricochet-' ted from a Oreo and struck Rae over tho eve. Death was instant a noons.
Tlie body was brought to Cam bridge with great- diilicnlty. An inquest will bo held to-day.
Re'e wa.- a wo’.l-kuowii and old resident <>f iho 'district, and a single man of middle ago.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6278, 23 July 1921, Page 3
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