FOUND SHOT

Grey River Argus, 24 April 1925, Page 7

FOUND SHOT

WAS IT AN ACCIDENT? GISBORNE. April 23. The inquest on .Alfred Thomas Rigney, found shot al Ormond on March 21st, was resumed this morning before Coroner Lewy. Mr Barnard, for the relatives of deceased, stated that he proposed to call evidence showing Rigney’s fiiinnci.J position, and the state of his mind, that ho was not. in any way worried, had a valuable property of stone deposits. earned considerable royalty, and was on happy terms with his wife, who was in a maternity hospital at rhe time of his death. It was impossible to suppose that a man io his happy position would take action which hud been suggested by the police. To' disprove the theory that the man put a gun to his mouth, he would call medical evidence, showing that from the position of the body, a man couhl not have pulled the trigger, and that the gun was never in the man’s mouth. Dr Collins would state that the wounds were such as would happen f ; the gun was some distance away. The ; reasonable explanation was that Ihe ' trigger had gone off accidentally when | the man was going to a drawer r o ! get a cartridge. Evidence suppo-ting counsel’s statement was then (-tilled. I