DEATH FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS.
SUICIDE THEORY SCOUTED. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELt?GKASf.) GISBOENE, April 23. The inquest on Alfred Thomas Rigncy, who was found shot at Ormoritf on March 26th, was resumed this morning before Mr E. C. Levvey, Coroner. Mr Burnard, for the relatives of deceased, stated thnt he proposed to call evidence showing Rigney's financial position, and his state of mind, that he Was not in any way worried, and had valuable property. His stone deposits earned a considerable royalty, and he was on happy terms with bis wife, who was in a maternity hospital at the time of his death. It was impossible to suppose that a man in his happy position would take the action which had been suggested by the police. To disprove the theory that the man put the gun in his mouth he would call medical evidence showing that from tho position' of the body the man could not have pulled .the trigger, and that the gun was never in the man's mouth. The track of the bullet and the injury to the brain, Dr. Collins would state, were such as would happen if the gun were -some distance away. A reasonable explanation was that the trigger had gone off accidentally, when the man was going to a drawer to get a cartridge. Evidence supporting counsel's statement was then called.
The Coroner returned a verdict that deceased died as the result of a gunshot wound, but there was insufficient evi-. dence to show how it occurred.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 7
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251DEATH FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 7
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