THE FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.
[BY TELKGRAPH.—PRES9 ASSOCIATION.] DcNEDiN, Thursday. At the inquest on the body of William Hillhouse Davidson, his companion Galloway repeated hie stateraenb that after sitting down to pick watercress he got up to go home. When a few yards away he called on deceased to come on. He then, beurd a shot, and on going back found deceased wounded. Before running for assistance he took the pea rifle out of decoised's hands and laid it down with hia own. A verdict of " Accidental death" wag roturned, the jury deeming it unnecessary to hold a post mortem.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10412, 9 April 1897, Page 5
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