GLAD IT WAS HIMSELF.
MAN ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, Monday. 'Tm killed. Thank God I shot myself and not you," said Robert Henry Smith to hia cousin, Robert Matthews Smith, as lie staggertd and fell with a gunshot would in his body on Sunday. The two Smiths, with Leslie Cecil Marx, who had no gun, were out dude shooting. They crossed s> creek and were climbing a steep bank when Mat* thews Smith slipped. Robert* who was behind him, pressed the butt of his gun against Matthews' back to support him. As Matthews reached the top of the bank with the support Bobert had given him he heard a shot discharged. At the inquest to-day the coroner said death was caused by a pure accident. Smith had the muzzle of the gun pointing toward himself, and the trigger must have caught in a twig. The accident showed the importance of great care being taken in handling firearms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 7
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