ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Inquest on Duck-shooter Dominion Special Service. Featherston, May 3. A verdict that death was due to shock and haemorrhage following a gunshot wound accidentally received, was returned by the coroner, Mr. T. E. Lang, at the inquest to-day on John Reginald Cole, farm-hand, aged 17, who died ip the Greytown Hospital on Saturday afternoon. According to the evidence the youth was shooting in a reserve a few miles out of Featherston with Roy Donald and William Burt. He was holding a duck in each hand and tlie gun was propped up against his body. It was discharged through a dog jumping up at him. The youth's i was nmnutatod in tlie Greytown Hospital, and he died there in the afternoon.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 186, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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