SHOOTING FATALITY.
INQUEST OPENED An inquest was opened yesterday forenoon [before Mr. A. Crooke, coroner, into tlie circumstances attending the death of Hoy Lodcr, who was killed in the accidental explosion of a <rtm while out shooting on Mr. Xcwton King's Hnrford Poad property on Sunday. Plain-clothes Constable Fitzgibbon represented the police. •Tohn Mowbray Knowles, laborer, residing in St. Aubvn Street, identified the body lying at the morgue as that of his step-son, ißoy Loder, who resided with witness and bis mother, and had been employed by Sole Brothers, butchers, New Plymouth. On two or three occasions lately he had gone out shootinc. although lie had no gun of his own, and he did so 011 Sunday with a companion named James Woolier. As far as witness knew the deceased bad had no experience in the handling of The age of the deceasd was 17 years and 10 months.
This closed the cvi(]or*r> of identification and the inquest v .'.djourned till to-day at 2.15 ip.m.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1917, Page 6
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165SHOOTING FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1917, Page 6
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