TRIGGER TOUCHED?
FATAL GUN DISCHARGE. THEORY AT INQUEST. (L.v lelegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, this day. .That one of lii<> dogs had touched the t'igger, thus causing the fatal shot, was tlie theory advanced at an adjourned inquest into the death of James Rudolph lynau, whose body was found at Houliora 011 January 9 with a gunshot wound in the neck.
A \ei diet that Ivnan died as a result of a wound from a shotgun, accidentallv discharged, was returned bv the district coroner, Mr. L. A. Mcintosh, before whom the inquest was concluded vesterdav.
Evidence showed that Tynan was of a cheerful disposition and had no worries. While living in a tent he had been much worried by cats and it seemed that on tlie night of his death he slept with his gun beside liiin.
When the body was discovered his three dogs were Iviiijr beside it and it was thought that one of the dogs had touched the trigger. Taking into consideration the position of the body, it was stated that he himself could' not have touched the trigger.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 11 February 1939, Page 10
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