DANGER OF SHOT-GUNS
MANY FATALITIES Y/APTYY,. ... J ..TE A (TIDE N' if A L SE iOOS' IN G. (P.n- I’l-.'SS Asxooinlic.il.) AUCKLAND, ‘his day. the danger of double-barrelled .licit guns with exposed hammers was dressed at an inquest before the oroner. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.. into the death of Donald McTavish McCrone, a stevedore, aged 53. married, on September 19. as a result f a shooting accident . ‘‘This is the third serious acciden; in September with this type of firearm,” stated a report received from Senior-Sergeant Kelly, of the arms ,)ur.au of the Police Department, “aiul the eightieth in four years.” Most users of hammer-pins, if was stated, were under the impression that so long as the gun was uncocked it was safe; but that was far from the truth. The evidence showed that Mr. McCrone had driven from his home to hoot rabbits at Tamaki. He got. out >f his motor car, and the gun discharged when he was near the front :f the car, causing severe wounds to he lower part of his face. He died later in the hospital. A verdict was returned that death was the result of a gunshot wound, iccidentally received.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 10
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198DANGER OF SHOT-GUNS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 10
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