BY ACCIDENT
CONSTABLE’S DEATH A PISTOL EXPLOSION £A. & NX.) CANBERRA, Nov. 8. According to information received from the Home Territories Department regarding the death of Constable Clapp, it was stated that Clapp was arresting a man on a charge of supplying liquor to a half-caste. He took a pistol from him and stuck it in his own belt. As he did so it exploded, and the bullet pierced an artery in the constable’s own leg. He died in a few minutes. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19993, 9 November 1927, Page 9
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91BY ACCIDENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19993, 9 November 1927, Page 9
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