LOADED RIFLES
CORONER STRESSES DANGER (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Friday. "Live cartridges should no* be left in the breech or magazine of a rifle in any circumstances whatever," said the coroner, Mr. \V. G. L. Mellish, when he returned a verdict that Eva Grace Stuart, aged 26, a married woman, was accidentally killfed by the discharge of a .22 rifle at her home in Island Bay on July 12. The evidence showed that Mr. Stuart picked up the rifle to move it from one corner of the room to the other, and as he did so he tripped over a heater and the rifle was discharged, the bullet striking Mrs. Stuart in the left ear. She died almost immediately. The rifle had been oiled by Mr. Stuart the night before, and Mrs. Stuart herself had left one cartridge in the magazine. This had apparently been transferred to the breech by the action of the bolt during the oiling. "I am satisfied that this was one of those unfortunate accidents," said the coroner.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 174, 25 July 1942, Page 3
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