A SOUTHLAND MYSTERY.
Invercargill, April 30. Some months ago a man named William Chinn was found dead, with a gunshot wound through his head, near the Waiau Biver, in the Western District. After the inquest and interment, rumors spread that Chinn’s death was not the result of an accident, and after much circumlocution authority was got to didnter the body for examinatian. This elicited nothing, and tho matter died out. A man named John Wyllie, who had recently arrived in the locality, and who was of peculiar habits and disposition, was hinted as having something to do with Chion’s death, and made himself conspicuous by endeavoring to get an inquiry with the object of clearing himself. The strange coincidence is now reported to the police that Wyllie has been found dead at the Woolshed hut, on Belmont Station, Waiau, with a gunshot wound in his head. The district is very isolated, and particulars are not yet to hand.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 6887, 18 May 1883, Page 3
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158A SOUTHLAND MYSTERY. New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 6887, 18 May 1883, Page 3
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