BROWNING PISTOL GOES OFF.
(Times and Sydney Suq Services.) (Received 8.20 a.m.) BERNE. June S. Peasants found the body of a man who had committed suicide lying in a forest path at Geneva with a Browning revolver clutched in the lifeless hand and the fingers still on the trigger. ■
A gendarme sent by the authorities to examine the corpse touched this hand, and the Browning discharged. The gendarme was shot in the stomach and killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 135, 8 June 1914, Page 5
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