WOMAN FATALLY SHOT
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j . j ■XiN V £iXWVyll£bU'X!LiiJ) 4 J 1111: V. ' ^ lVliun (iispectitig her liup.build 'a i'lfl'i ou . Stiuday iiighl Mrs. L'niiiul May | Allot't, aged 37, oi 20 Landsdown*} j Street, Invercargill, waa sliot tlirougli j thevlifiad-.and_died .ou lier way.to tlie I hoHpilal. Her liusbaud, Lawrence ! Heatheoat Allott, had beeu out shoot- ' ing with friends ou Saturday. Unaware ; that the ride was loaded lie placed it | muzzle upwards against a chesterfield on which his wife was lying while he went for eleaning equipiuent. He heard a rexiort and on returuiug found his wife with a btdlet wound in her liead. It is believed that Mrs. Allott took the J rifle by the muzzle and dragged it toI wards her and that Ihe trigger eaught on the end of tho chesterfield and the rifle disehargod.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 3
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146WOMAN FATALLY SHOT Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 3
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