ACCIDENT WITH GUN
DEATH OF CONSTABLE'S WIFE (PA.) NELSON, June 22. The 21-year-old wife of Constable Main died in hospital yesterday as the result of gunshot wounds in the stomach. A young boy had been demonstrating the loading of a shotgun, which was inadvertently put away loaded. When it was later picked up by the deceased, the gun was accidentally discharged.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24949, 23 June 1942, Page 2
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61ACCIDENT WITH GUN Otago Daily Times, Issue 24949, 23 June 1942, Page 2
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