SHOOTING FATALITY
COMMENTS AT INQUEST. i ; [ PICK PRESS ASSOCIATION.) J 1 I I AUCKLAND, October IS. |i The danger of double barrelled siioi-j guns with exposed hammers was emphasised ai an inquest before the Coroner. Mr. F. K. lliini. into the death of Donald Mc.Tavish .Met r:me, a stevedore. 53. married, on Septi inner) 19. in a shooting accident. | “This is the third serious accident i in September with this type of lireatm." stated a report received from 1 Senior-Sergeant Kelly, ol the Arms Bureau of the Police Department, "and the eightieth in four years." Most users of hammer pins, it was slated, wetc under the impression that so long as a gun was uncocked it was safe, but that was far from the truth.) The. evidence showed that Mc.Cronol ihad driven from him home at shoot jiabbits at Tamaki. He got out of his ! I motor-car and the- gun discharged I when he was near the from of the I car. causing severe wounds io the low'cr part of the face. lie died later in i hospital. ■i A verdict was returned that, death . was the re,still of a gunshot wound, accidentally received..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1939, Page 3
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