OPEN VERDICT GIVEN AT INQUEST INTO KAIKOURA FATALITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 3

OPEN VERDICT GIVEN AT INQUEST INTO KAIKOURA FATALITY.

An inquest concerning the death o* Harry Helmore Comer, a married man aged forty-eight, was held at the Ka? koura Hospital on Friday evening be fore Mr Tames Davidson. acting-Coro ner, and a jury of four. Mr Raymond Gibson appeared for deceased’s -ela tives. Nellie Rosamund ( omer wife ol de •eased said she last saw her husband alive at 3 pm on December 5, in th« house when he was in his usual stat* of health She went out in her caand returned at 5 p.m On arriving home she saw no sign of deceased She looked in the shed and saw that the gun was gone She waited until 6.20 p.m., and then rang up neighbour and inquired for him Mr George Wa! ’ace arrived and commenced a search Deceased’s hat was found by Wallat and the body was discovered seventeei Yards away by Mr A. B Clarke The body was lying flat on the found with the top of the head blown off The police were with and on arrival the body was removed to the morgue Deceased had no financin or other worries. After hearing the evidence ot Georgt Sidney Wallace, A B. Clarke, Constablt W M’Lennan and Dr L Withers. th« lury returned a verdict that the cause of death was a gun-shot wound, with no evidence to show how it happened