YOUTH FATALLY SHOT
ACCIDENT WITH PEA RIFLE INQUEST AT KEREPEEHI [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] THAMES, Saturday An inquest was held before the District Coroner, Mr. W. Bongard, yesterday, concerning the death of Brian Cyril Stewart Jamieson, aged 18, whose body was found in an orchard at Kerepeehi yesterday afternoon with a pea rifle bullet wound in the head.
H. D. Jamieson said deceased was in the habit of shooting blackbirds, which had been destroying fruit. He was seen at 1 p.m. going to the orchard, and on his not returning a search was made. The body was found under a tree with the rifle underneath it. The medical evidence showed that the shot had lodged in the brain and that death must have been instantaneous. The coroner said there were no suspicious circumstances. The discharge of the rifle, which was an old model, must have been accidental. He returned a verdict of accidental death.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22629, 18 January 1937, Page 13
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