DEATH OF STALKER
SHOTS FIRED AT SOMETHING BROWN
FOLLOWING ON IMITATED ROARS. NEED OF STRICT CARE URGED BY CORONER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA. This Day. A strong warning to sportsmen, especially deerstalkers, that no shot must be fired unless the objective were definitely seen, was issued by the District Coroner (Mr W. L. Richards) at an inquest into the death of James Gordon Dryland, a married man aged 29. Dryland was deer hunting in the Rotoehu Bush on April 5 and was killed by two shots fired by David Hoffman,* a Public Works employee at Rotoiti. The evidence showed that Hoffman heard roars, as he believed from a stag, but actually made by Dryland, using a bugle horn and imitating the roar. Hoffmhn saw something brown move in the fern and fired two shots. The brown object was subsequently found to be Dryland's jersey. The Coroner said Hoffman was unaware of the presence of other hunters when he fired, as, owing to the high scrub, it was impossible for either party to see the other.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 6
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175DEATH OF STALKER Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1941, Page 6
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