WAHAROA FATALITY
SHOOTING OF YOUNG GIRL PURELY AN ACCIDENT (From Our Oxen Correspondent) MATAMATA, Monday. An inquest was held to-day by Mr. J. Barr Bums, district coroner, regarding the death on Sunday evening of Miss Edna Lewis, aged 17 years, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis, Waharoa, who was accidentally shot on Sunday. Evidence was given that Miss Lewis, j in company with her two sisters, went down to the road and was sitting on the gate when two young men, Ernest Hill and Richard King, came along and engaged in conversation with them. They had a gun. which they left up against a post. King picked up the weapon and was leaning on it j while talking. Three other young | men came along and one of them, Arthur Davis, aged IS. took the gun j and put it to his shoulder. He set ( the hammer back and pulled the trigger. Just as he did so Miss Lewis raised ! herself on the gate, and the charge j eaught her in the neck, killing her | instantly. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, due to a gunshot wound.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 568, 22 January 1929, Page 16
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