YOUNG FARMER SHOT
FATALITY NEAR WAIUKU EVIDENCE AT INQUEST (Special to THE SUN) WAIUKU, Wednesday. After finishing milking last evening Mr. Wesley George Ivan Ridgley, 21, took his gun and said he was going to shoot rabbits. This morning he aS found dead with a wound in the tempi® and the discharged shot-gun besid® him. An inquest was held today by A. M. Barriball, district coroner. Evidence was given that d ® cea^. r was the eldest son of Mr. spenC _j Ridgley, of Pukeoware. He seem®** cheerful when he set out with his but had not been well and had o*" suited a doctor. * A verdict was returned that n was caused by a wound from the g • there not being sufficient evidence show whether the gun had been ac dentally or intentionally discharged*^
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 814, 7 November 1929, Page 16
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