ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

North Otago Times, 13 January 1906, Page 2

ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.

l!y Telegraph,

Pajincrston North, Jan. 12. At tliu inquest on Jaiucs Jamiey, accidentally shot with a pea rifle, Ethel Linton save evidence that deceased said lie would kiss her. That was said in the ordinary way of chaff, and witness took it as such. Deceased went out without attempting to carry out his suggestion. Witness thought she said, " I'll shoot you," but only in tun. She took up the iflc, and pointed it at deceased. When lie pulled tiie trigger she did not know the rifle hail gone oil, but thought deceased was joking. When deceased foil she thought he was only joking, as he had been a soldier. Thomas .Tuggell, who witnessed the occurrence, deposed that deceased said laughingly, " Shoot me, Ethel; I'll die like, a man, if yon can." The jury returned a verdict ot accidental death 1 , and added a rider of sympathy with Ethel Linton.