FATAL GUNSHOT WOUND
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, May 4. The accidental discharge of a shotgun inflicted fatal head injuries on James Ross, aged 17, of Fairfield. Mr Ross was shooting ducks with a companion between Brighton and the Main South road. The gun discharged as he picked it up after fie had climbed through a fence. -Ashburton Guardian, 5/5/1948.
DEATHS
ROSS. — On May 4, 1948 (result of an accident at Fairfield), James, beloved second son of George and Doris Daisy Ross. Fairfield, in his eighteenth year. Deeply mourned. — The Funeral will leave the residence of his parents on Thursday, 6tn inst., at 2 p.m. (service 1.45), for the Green Island Cemetery.
— Hope and Kinaston, funeral directors. -Otago Daily Times, 5/5/1948.
Hammer Gun Menace
DUNEDIN. Wed. (P.A.) — “Hammer guns are a menace at any time, particularly in The hands of inexperienced youths," said the coroner (Mr A. W. Willis. S.M., when giving his verdict at the inquest into the death of James Ross, 17, of Fairfield.
Ross died in the Dunedin Hospital on May 4 from gunshot wounds suffered during a duck-shooting expedition at Fairfield on that day.
The youth was the author of his own misfortune in that he was careless with a hammer gun, said Mr Willis.
The verdict was that Ross died from cerebral lacerations caused by gunshot wounds. -Northern Advocate, 9/6/1948.
Green Island Cemetery.
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