SHOT BY MISTAKE.
A YOUTH FIRES AT HIS MOTHER,
MELBOURNE, October 25.
Early this morning a woman named Jane Scorer, living in Doctors' Gully Tarnagulla, was aroused from her sleep by a noise outside. She alarmed her son and her brother.
The son Richard, who is 18 years of age, seized a double-barrelled gun, which was standing loaded in his room, and on opening the door he saw somebody standing two or three yards in front of him, and without warning he raised tho gun and fired. The person proved to bo his mother, and she received the full; contents of the charge, which tore away her left breast and ilesh the right forearm. Her condition is critical. Sue was removed to the Inglewood HcopitaL
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 256, 2 November 1906, Page 4
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125SHOT BY MISTAKE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 256, 2 November 1906, Page 4
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