EVIDENCE WITHHELD
CORONER'S COMMENTS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVEKCAKGILL, ICth February.
Comment upon th"c attitude of certain witnesses in withholding evidence calculated to shed light on the actual manner in which William Lawrance Walker, aged 17, met his death while rabbiting with companions at Northope on 14th January, was made by the Coroner, Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., at an inquest to-day. • ;■'
"It is very unfortunate that this lad should be made the subject of a small and rather pitiful display of restraint by two or three Of his companions,'' said the Coroner. "The Court feels that the whole story has not been told, and that what could have been quite simply explained has been withheld from the Court. They, have made themselves morally foolish about it, and have chosen to make a mystery of it all. ' "My finding is that.the deceased-met his death from the effects of a gunshot wound _in his right side, but the evidence is too indefinite, to say: how or in what manner the gunshot wound -was inflicted." . ■ ' '
During the hearing of the evidence the Coroner appealed for more: frant;ness and told one witness he was keeping something back. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 8
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193EVIDENCE WITHHELD Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 8
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