LAW AND THE GUN
PROMISCUOUS SHOOTINQ WARNING BY A CORONER LONDON, Nov. 23. “The law does not allow people to 'shoot promiscuously, merely because they are armed. They are allowed to do so only if there is no other menus of effecting nil arrest,” said the coroner, at the inquest 10-dav oil Philip Jaeger, 2(5, bookmaker’s clerk. Jaeger was fatally shot (by Rupert Wagner, a brewery collector, while he wits driven oil in a stolen car alter he and four others had hold up and stolen a Img of money from Wagner at Twickenham. i Jaeger was shot on November 10, and died next day, in spite of a transfusion of blood from his fiancee, Wagner, who was licensed to carry it revolver, gave evidence that he fired at the tyres of the car, and not at tlie men. The ear was found to riddled with bullet holes, The coroner recorded the jttryy finding of justifiable homicide.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18262, 4 December 1933, Page 3
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