A SHOOTING TRAGEDY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 8

A SHOOTING TRAGEDY

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AT INQUEST. The inquest on the body of Otto Haub, who wa« shot dead at Lake Clifton (W.A.) shows that deceased left his home with a shot-gun and riflb to look for duck. The reports of a rifle and gun being*fired were subsequently heard. Haub did not return, and his wife searched, and found his body on tho shore of the lake, with many pellet wounds in his breast, some penetrating the heart. His"discharged rifle was 200 yards anvay. His gun could not he found. A punt had been run ashore twenty yards from where the body was found, and a discharged cartridge was ten yards from it. A shot had been fired within fifteen yards. A gun wad was sticking on Hauh’s shirt, and the wound was all comprised within a circle of eight inches diameter. Robert Pahl, who is in custody, and between whom and Haub there was long-Standing ill-will, was shooting on the lake in the punt that morning. Alexander Hay, who was with Pahl’s party, deposed that Pahl came hack to the camp and said he had been approaching a mob of ducks when someone fired at them across 'the lake. He (Pahl) then crossed tho lake, and "put a charge of shot into him.” One of the party said, “Come np and wc will give Otto a hiding.” Pahl replied, “I have already shot him.” There was nothing unusual in Pali!* manner, and Hay did not believe him at tho time.

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