SHOOTING TRAGEDY
YOUNG WOMAN KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 19. A shotgun which dropped through the open doorway of a motor-car stopped outside a service station in Ramarama today struck the roadway and discharged, the charge striking a woman in the chest and throat and killing her instantly. The victim was Mrs Phyllis Marian Clough, aged 21, Newmarket. The woman was one of a party which left Auckland to spend the day at the country and to do some shooting. The shotgun lay, with its muzzle pointed upward toward the back window. The gun was loaded in both barrels and when the door opened, the gun-butt slid from its position, bumped over the step and struck the roadway. Though the gun was fitted with a safe-ty-catch which had been set, during the passage of the gun from the car to the roadway, the catch was released and the impact discharged one barrel, Mrs Clough receiving the full force of the shot in the chest and throat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 February 1939, Page 5
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