WOUND IN FOREHEAD.
DEATH OF PUBLICAN.
"ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING."
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
THAMES, this day,
A verdict of accidental shooting at his own hands was returned by the coroner, Mr. W. Bonzard, last night at the adjourned inquest concerning the death of Douglas McKenzie, licensee of the Tapu Hotel, who was found unconscious in his bedroom with a bullet wound in his forehead on the morning of December 22, and who died in a private hospital later in the day.
The coroner, in summing up, said the unsatisfactory part of the case was that neither the sheet nor the remains of the bullet had been found, and no evidence could be given as to what became of them. There was no evidence before the Court, he added, of suicidal intention.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1938, Page 8
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