MAN FOUND SHOT
About seven o'clock last night the occupants of the Midland Billiard Parlours in Manners Street heard a pistol-shot coming from a lavatory at the rear of the premises. When investigation was made a man named Walter James Turner was found lying dead from 11 bullet-wound in the forehead. Turner, who was 33 years of age, had been fairly well known in Wellington as a hawker. He was a mar. ried man with one child, and resided at 31 Abel Smith Street. From testimony übtnined by the police it appears that the deceased, toother with a wharf labourer named Way and a third man whose name is at present not known, went into the lavatory, and while there the last-mentioned individual produced a revolver, and Turner made grab at the weapon, which by sonus means was discharged, the bullet entering deceased's forehead. The body of deceased was removed to the morgue, and an inquest will bo held.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 169, 11 April 1919, Page 6
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159MAN FOUND SHOT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 169, 11 April 1919, Page 6
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