SHOOTING FATALITY
COMMENT BY CORONER “Live cartridges should not be left in the breech or magazine of a rule in any circumstances whatever, said the Wellington coroner, Mr. W. G. L. Mellish. when he returned a verdict that Eva Grace Stuart, aged 26 a married woman, was accidentaly Killed by the discharge ol’ a .22 rifle at her home in Island Bay on July 12. The evidence showed .that Stuart picked up the rifle to move It from one corner of the room to the othci, and as he did so he tripped over a heater and the rifle was discharged, the bullet striking Mrs. Stuart in the left ear. She died almost immediately The rifle had been oiled by Stuart the night before, and Mrs. Stuart herself had left one cartridge in the magazine. This had apparently been transferred to the breech by the action of the bolt during the oiling. , . , “I am satisfied that this was one of those unfortunate accidents,” said the coronas'.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20863, 15 August 1942, Page 5
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