ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 65, 16 March 1912, Page 3

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

Mr. W. G. Riddall, S.M., held an' inquest yesterday afternoon on the body' of Charles Reeve, an employee of the State Coal Department, who was fotinddead near Johiifionville yesterday. Tho evidence showed that deceased was 48 yeais of age. and he lived happily with his wife and children. There were no business, financial, or domestic worrie*, and he was healthy and cheerful. Deceased wa* recovering from a sprained ankle, and when he went out yesterday he was wearing hoime shoes. The alipperiite.=s of the wet grass might have caused him to fall, and if was suggested ' that the gun went off accidentally. The gun was unisufe, and had been known to go off «n its own account. ' Apparently there were no eye- .wluiei-sea to the occurrence. lit* Worship .returned a verdkt of accidental death. , ' ' ' ' In our issue of yesterday an announcement appeared of the death of Mr. William Reeve, in which it was htated tha,t deceased had shot' hinitelf. The subbe-, iiuenb colonial enquiry,, as , reported, tlio'WK that Mr. Reeved death was sioejdenial. The t'auts lor yestcidayi^ paragi'ttpli were obtained fi'uni the leporL ■f.uppiicd by tUo police "