SHOT BY FIANCE.
LONDON, Jan. 7. A girl was accidentally shot dead by her liane? in York on ‘rsburday. Miss Ada Cooper, HJ, had been spending a holiday at the home in Acomh-voad of till' parents of her fiance, Mr Lewis Cocker, 20, a woodwork instructor, of Menton, Lancashire. The couple wore piick’ne Heir trunks in preparation for leaving the house when Cocker took out of a box an automatic pistol which had not been touched since lie was demobilised more than two years ago. Not knowing that it was loaded, lie pointed it jokingly at the girl. When she protested he put his left arm round her neck to kiss her. The pistol, which was still in his right hand went off. The bullet entered the girl’s breast and passed through her body, lodging in a trunk behind. She was taken! to hospital, but died a few hours
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1922, Page 3
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149SHOT BY FIANCE. Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1922, Page 3
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