SHOOTING FATALITY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 8

SHOOTING FATALITY

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST (Per Press Association.) . INVERCARGILL, this day. An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of: Harvey John Foley, 27, a single man, who died on April 1 as a result of a bullet wound in the head was held yesterday before Mr. E. (J. Levvey, B.M, Dr. Ritchie Crawford said he found deceased lying in a garden alongside a shed. He was unconscious and breathing heavily and an examination dis : closed a bullet wound on the right side of the head. As the only chance of saving his life was to rush him to hospital, he had summoned an ambulance. The wound corresponded with a shot from a rifle, though lie could not, say from what angle it was fired. A rifle'was standing up in a shed and, close by, was some cleaning gear. He understood that deceased died on iris way to hospital. The bullet must have lacerated the brain and lodged in the skull. Death had resulted from haemorrhage and compression. Percy William Foley, brother of the deceased, said that deceased did not appear to have had any worries of any kind. He had been somewhat careless with his rifle on previous occasions. The coroner found that deceased had died as a result of a bullet, wound, but that there was no evidence to show how the wound had come to lie inflicted.