SAD SHOOTING ACCIDENT
A CONSTABLE ACCIDENTALLY; SHOOTS A FRIEND,.
Per Press Association iPAK'IATUA, last nighty
Yesterday a 'man named Read, a saddler at Mangatainoka, in company with Sheary, constable at Mangatainoka, Was out shooting hares. Read asked Sheary what the time was. Sheary changed the gun from under one arm to the other to look at his watch, when the gun from some cause or other went off. The full charge loaded' in Read’s thigh, inflicting a bad wound. Read ■died in the hospital before his depositions could be taken. Death is attributed to the shock. Deceased .was about 24, and leaves a jvffe and child.
THE .VERDICT, Per Press Association^ PAHIATUA, last night. ■At the inquest concerning the death of the man Read, shot at Mangatainoka yesterday by Constable Sheary, a verdict of accidental ■death through shock and loss of blood was returned. The jury added a rider exonerating Sheary,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 947, 21 July 1903, Page 2
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