THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 8, 3 September 1912, Page 5

THE DUNEDIN TRAGEDY.

TURNER CHARGED WITH MURDER. (Per Press Association.) Dunedin, September 2. The inquest, on the body of Percy John Turner, who died as the result of a shot fired by his father on Saturday, was hold this afternoon >r. Roberts gave evidence that the bullet had passed through the lower lobe of the left lung, causing severe hemorrhage. The bullei struck the vertebral column, and was found in tne spinal cord. Death was due to loss t.l blood. . . Robert Franklin Turner gave evidence as lo hearing the report of the nun, and seeing his brother fall : _His father had a gun in his hand. Witness picked up a revolver at the stable door, where the shooting took place. His father closed the stable door. which was made after the style of a prating, and pointed the gun at witness, who pointed the revolver at Ins father. The latter afterwards came one, threw the gun at witness, and rushed away. Witness threw the gun hack at his father, who picked it up and ran into the street. The revolver was not found where In; brother fell. Witness had never seen the revolver or the gun before. The revolver was loaded in six chambers. Ihe relations between his father and deceased were not happy. Before being shot, deceased was standing about the spot where the revolver was picked up. Sergeant O'Connell said that when Turner, sen., gave himself up he said ho had'shot his son in self-defence, as the latter had a revolver and threatened to shoot h : m. The Coroner (Mr. Graham) returned a verdict that death was due to severe hemorrhage, caused by a gunshot wound, wilfully inflicted by Turn-

er, sen. . Turner was charged with murder in the Policn Court this morning, and was remanded until Friday.