STRANGE SUICIDE
CHILD TO PULL TRIGGER Suicide by an unusual method was revealed at an inquest in Napier by Mr. J. Miller, S.M., into the death of a woman, Muriel Lillian Waldon. A young girl was induced by the woman to pull the trigger of a rifle which deceased had placed on a table and pointed toward her own head. The girl told the coroner how, at the instigation of deceased, she had pulled the trigger on a number of occasions when it had only “clicked.” On another occasion when the child thought it was unloaded, she had pulled it, as asked by deceased, and it had fired.
The coroner remared that the woman was of unsound mind and had killed herself by placing a rifle on the table and, vyhile standing in front of it by inducing the girl to pull the trigger, the girl herself being entirely innocent as she was under the belief that the rifle was not loaded.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20507, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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162STRANGE SUICIDE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20507, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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