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A DELIBElRATE ACT London, April 26. It was later established that Mr. Justice McCardie was sh'ot with a sporting 'gun which was held between his knees and a piece of string was attached to the trigger, the other end of which was held in his hand. The late judge had occupied a suite in Queen A.nne mansions, St. James, for 251 years. A housemaid heard a shot at 4.30 p.m. and fonnd him crumpled in a chair and bleeding from al wound in the head. Mr. Justice McCardie recently said. "I am depressed with the after effect3 of influenza," but a memher of the hotel staff said he seemed in his usual charming and happy mood at lunch time. Mr. Justice McCardie was a keen sportsman and kept several guns at his rooms. The body was removed to the Westminster mortuary and an inquest will be held on Friday.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 517, 28 April 1933, Page 5
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