FATAL FOLLY.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, lasi night. At the inquest on Aleo Moses, previously called Myers, Eoy King, who fired the fatal shot, said tho pistol belonged to his elder brother. He took it from his brother’s drawer to show deceased, not knowing it was loaded. It suddenly went off. Moses fell on tho floor, and gave some groans. King said, “Oh! Alec, I oouldn’i help it.” King was so frightened that he ran all the way to his unole’s place , at Otahuhn, the journey oooupyiog about two hours. The pistol was a 22-oalibre toy pistol, but a dangerous one in inexperienced hands. The cartridges were thosa used for an ordinary pea rifle. I The jury found that death was oaused by a pistol shot, fired by Koy King. The Coroner said it was impossible to bring a charge of manslaughter against King, though ho would probably have been I charged if older.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1651, 18 January 1906, Page 3
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154FATAL FOLLY. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1651, 18 January 1906, Page 3
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