ACCIDENTAL DEATH
SCHOOL-TEACHER SHOT TRAGEDY AT TAHUROA (Special to THE SUN) e‘ ' MORRINSVILLE, To-day. verdict of accidental death was urned at the inquest held on the .th of Cecil John Walsh, a school cher at Tahuroa, who was shot lie out rabbit-shooting on Sunday. E! inquest was held before Mr. C. M. inmer. Douglas James Simpson, a carpen- , said he had boarded with Walsh the last two months. About 4 lock on Sunday afternoon witness l seen him with a pea-rifle, going I shooting, according to a habit he formed recently. When the body j found its position suggested that | shooting was purely accidental. Wistable Heeps said that he had arched the dead man’s rooms and 1 found two sealed letters. One was Jressed to Walsh’s mother, expressthat he had not been able to le to Auckland for the last holi[s, but saying that he hoped to get in May. The other was to a Arm jAuckland inquiring the prices of tor-cycles. Vhen the body was found the cloth- , was caught in a tightly-strung bed wire fence, and it seemed that lsh’s gun must have gone off as was trying to get free. I verdict of accidental death was Urned by the coroner.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 648, 27 April 1929, Page 16
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203ACCIDENTAL DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 648, 27 April 1929, Page 16
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