ACCIDENT WITH RIFLE
DEATH THROUGH GUNSHOT WOUND A verdict that death resulted from a gunshot wound was returned by the coroner, Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., this morning at the inquest into the dea.t.h of Walter Joseph Motion, aged 23. who died at' the Auckland Hospital yesterday. While Mr. Motion was cleaning a pea-rifle on the verandah of his home at Lansdowne Street, Bayswater, on Sunday afternoon, the weapon accidentally discharged and a bullet entered his body.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 13
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77ACCIDENT WITH RIFLE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 13
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