FAULTY RIFLE
INQUEST INTO BOY'S DEATH ' [from our owx correspondent] MORRIXSVILLE. Saturday The inquest into the death of Jan the 10-vcar-old son of Mr. and Mrs, George Scott, of Mangateparu, ■who was shot on April 28, was concluded at Morrinsville by the coroner, Mr. G. Hedge. The coroner's finding .Was that lan Scott died from a gunshot wound in the chest accidentally inflicted by his brother Frank Scott, who was carrying a loaded pearifie. The rifle was sent to Wellington for examination and was found to bo faulty. It has since been destroyed by the police.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23358, 29 May 1939, Page 12
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