YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT SHOTGUN FALLS FROM MOTOR-CAR [ Per l icss Association.] AUCKLAND, Feb. 19. A shotgun which dropped through an open doorway of a motor-car stopped outside a senice station at Ramarama to-day 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, of Newmarket.
The woman was one of a party who left Auckland to spend the day in the country to do some shooting. The shotgun lay with the muzzle pointed upward toward the back window and the gun was loaded in both barrels. When the door was opened the gun butt slid from its position, bumped over the step and struck the roadway. Although the gun was fitted with a safety catch, which had been set. during the passage of the gun from the car to the roadway the < atch 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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175YOUNG WOMAN’S DEATH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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