ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
A REVOLVER FATALITY. Per Press Association. Wanganui, January 31. A strange fatality occurred this morning. It appears that W. G. Hook, a carrier, aged 43, and John Armstrong, a clerk, were firing a. revolver at a benzine tin in a hack yard in Muir street, Gonville. Armstrong had occasion to go into a shed, and while there heard two shots. The first hit the tin, but the second did not. On going back to Hook, Armstrong found him lying dead on the ground with a bullet wound in bis forehead. Apparently nobody but Hook could have fired the shot, yet why be should have done so is a mystery, as he was in good spirits when Armstrong left him a few minutes previously.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1915, Page 7
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125ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 26, 1 February 1915, Page 7
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