EVIDENCE WITHHELD
COMMENT BY CORONER " WHOLE STORY NOT TOLD " [DV TELEfiH APIT —I'RESS ASSOCIATION] INVERCARGILL. Friday Comment upon the attitude of certain witnesses in withholding evidence calculated to shed light 011 the actual manner in which William Lawrence Walker, aged 17, met his death while rabbit shooting with companions at Northope on January 14, was made by the coroner, Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., at the inquest today. "It is very unfortunate that this lad should be made the subject of a small and rather pitiful display of restraint by two or three of his companions," said the coroner. ' The Court feels that the whole story has not been told and that what could have been quite simplv explained has been withheld from the Court. They have made themselves morally foolish about it and have chosen to make a mystery of it all. My finding is that deceased met his death from the effects of a gunshot wound in his right side, but the evidence is too indefinite to say how or in what manner the gunshot. wound was inflicted." During the hearing of evidence the coroner appealed for more frankness and told one witness that lie was keeping something back
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 12
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