ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION OF. GUN. GIRL KILLED BY BROTHER. /Press Association). TAUMAUUNUI, Dec. 31. At the inquest into the death of Ethel McCann, a single woman, aged 29 years, .who died in Taumarunui Hospital on Saturday, following injuries received to her head when a shotgun being loaded by her brother accidentally exploded at her home at Taringamotu on Friday, Gwen McCann, 20, the deceased’s brother, gave evidence that the gun unaccountably exploded as ho closed the breech. He purchased the gun the previous day. The medical evidence showed that a pellet from the charge entered the skull and was deeply embedded in the brain, causing haemorrhage of the brain.
A verdict of accidental death, no blame being attachable to anyone, was returned.
GIRL DIES FROM TN(JURIES
SLIPPED WITH LOADED PEA RIFLE.
/Press Association.v NELSON, December 31
The death has occurred of Winifred Kathleen Rowling, 19 years, a da ugh ter of Mr Sydney Rowling, of R-iwa-ka as a result- oil the accidental discharge of r a. pea-rifle laist week which she took to drive away starlings from the house.
She slipped on some (Steps, the riflo discharging and the bullet entering her abdomen.
Who pays the hill for the injured? Consult the Standard insurance Company for full protection.—S. U. Yortbe. local manager. /Advt.l
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12442, 2 January 1935, Page 2
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