TRAGIC BURLESQUE DUEL.
O • ; THE GTO WAS LOADED,
' (By Telegraph.—Press' JUsocdiition.) Stratford, December 2.
Arthur Fred Lamence, aged eighteen, was'the victim of a fatal shooting accident at Toko on. Saturday night. A circus was to have performed in the township that evening, but failed to arrive. Lawrence, with a number of companions, was running a mook circus in a room used as a gymnasium. A "duel" was announced between Lawrence and a boy named Corbett, aged seventeen. Tho boys took down two shotguns from tho wall and commenced a duel. Lawrence snapped the trigger repeatedly, then Corbett responded. There was a loud report, and Lawrence fell, the charge lodging in his.jaw and throat. Dr. Sfcevon was summoned, and the unfortunate lad was conveyed 'to the Stratford Hospital, but died before admittance^ An examination of the gun showed that both barrels had been left loaded. An inquest is to be,held to-day.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 4
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150TRAGIC BURLESQUE DUEL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1613, 3 December 1912, Page 4
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