Virtual
War Memorial
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Sono f Benjamin and Jennie DEALY of Mooroopna

Husband of Owanh (MacLaughlin) Dealy, of Mooroopna.

Charles David Dealy, aged 34, died almost instantaneously yesterday from a pea rifle wound in the forehead. Dealy, who had been married only 18 months, was discharged from  the army last November and since then had been attending Heidelberg Military Hospital where he had been receiving treatment for nervous trouble. His wife, who has been  housekeeping for her brothers, McLaughlan Bros., of Gongupna, on whose property the incident occurred, heard a rifle report and ran to the front of the house where she found her husband lying on the garden with a gun shot wound in his forehead and a pea rifle beside him. It is believed that Dealy, who had been spending most of his time with his  mother at North Mooroopna when not in Melbourne, had lunch with his wife and then prepared to go across to his mother's place. Shortly after his wife, who was scrubbing out a 
breeding post in the back yard, heard a report similar to that of a pea rifle. She ran to the front verandah and saw her husband lying on the garden bleeding from a wound in the head with a pea rifle beside him which belonged to her brother. Sgt. S. H.McGuffie and First Constable G. H. Wilson of the Shepparton police had the body removed to Kittle Bros.  mortuary at Shepparton where a post mortem examination was held. Death was apparently due to a wound from a pea rifle. Police do not suspect suspicious circumstances. An  inquest was opened by the deputy coroner (Mr G. V. Furphy) today and adjourned to a date to be fixed.