RIFLE LYING IN SHED FOR 17 YEARS KILLS BOY
DUNEDIN, This Day (P.A.).—Evidence that the rifle which killed Robert Clements Walker, aged 10, of Otokia, had been lying untouched in a shed for about 17 years was given at the inquest into the boy’s death at Mosgiel. The Coroner, Mr A. F. Quelch, found that the boy had died on August 26 from a bullet wound in the head when a .22 rifle was accidentally discharged by another 10-year-old boy, Barry Albert Bayliss. The victim’s uncle, Cyril Walker, who heard the shot and found the child, said the rifle had been left by a visitor and was never claimed. It was well rusted and had been treated as lumber. He did not know that it was loaded and he believed the bullet must have been in the gun since it had been left there,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 August 1950, Page 4
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