LOADED GUN DANGER.
WARNING BY A CORONER.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The inquest regarding the death of the boy Stanley Arnold Oram Chapman was continued td-day. The evidence showed that Arthur Dudley Stevenson, aged 16, and deceased were great chums. Stevenson went to a. store-room to get a gun, which w-m loaded-, and he was returning with it when it went off, and the charge entered deceased’s abdomen. It is surmised that the trigger caught on a but ton of Stevenson’s clothing.
r The Coroner (Mr. Widdowsohi drew attention to the folly of leaving wea pons loaded The whole thing was a pure accident. A verdict to this ctioi i was returned.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1921, Page 5
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114LOADED GUN DANGER. Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1921, Page 5
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