FATAL GUN ACCIDENT
PIPIROA FARMER FOUND DEAD BESIDR ' * GUN • ' Thames", Wednesday. The Coroner, Mr. Bongard, returned -a verdict of accidental death at . the-inquest on Hilton DalgetyJ age'd 39 years, a well-known' fafmer *">0f Pipiroa, who was found shtft- iri tHe head, with a gun alongside,* yestferd'ay, after the milking. * ' The evidence showed 'that Dalgety was.'in the best of health, and had :no worries. He had left the milking to shoot quail, and asked his wife where the cartridges were kept. A; f aritthdnd jkter found "the body- lying^th* a- tfool Of blood, with portion Of the' head shot away. Nobody heard a shot'fifed." , . ' ■ ~The Coroner said he had no hesitatiofi in bringing in a verdict' of Uccidefital death, adding that th'e gun 'was not iri the best eondition, thd barrfels dnd hammers being loose. ~ • >• v
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 5
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135FATAL GUN ACCIDENT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 672, 26 October 1933, Page 5
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