WOMAN KILLED
BY DISCHARGE OF RIFLE. TRAGEDY AT ISLAND BAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A tragedy occurred at Island Bay on Sunday afternoon, when Mrs Grace Stuart, a young married woman, died as the result of a .22 bullet entering her left ear. Mrs Stuart lived with her husband, Mr Andrew Gordon Stuart, at 238 The esplanade, Island Bay. A .22 rifle belonging to Mr Stuart was kept in a corner of the sitting-room. Mrs Stuart, it is stated, considered the rifle a danger, and had asked her husband to move it. Shortly before 3 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, when both Mr and Mrs Stuart were in the sitting-room, it is understood that, thinking the rifle unloaded, he picked it up to remove it, when it went off, the bullet entering Mrs Stuart’s left ear and killing her. Mr and Mrs Stuart originally came from Dunedin, and had only been living at The Esplanade about three weeks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 3
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