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Accidental Shooting.
THREE RIVERS FATALITY.
At Three Rivers Station situated be tween Peak Hill and Nullagine, on December 10, Wesley Taylor, married, was found dead with a shot gun wound in the head. An inquiry was held at the Meeka tharra Police Court on December 10 before the Acting-Coroner, John S.
D 'Alton and after evidence had been tendered by Martin August Bourgoine, Hurtle Power, Edgar Morrow, and the statements of Eileen May Taylor, wi dow of deceased and Dr. Esmond T. Walsh, R.M.O., had been submitted the following verdict was returned: 'That deceased Wesley Hall Taylor came to his death at Three Rivers Station on December 6, 1928, by a gun shot wound in the head, accidentally inflicted by himself. Mr. W. J. Wright, aged 55, who re cently purchased Bickley Farm, near Taun'ton, Somerset, for £10,000, was found shot dead with, a gun by his side.