SHOOTING FATALITY,
f , ';. I YOUNG MAN KILLS HIS COMRADE. 3 By Teletrraph—Press Association—Copyright t ' , ' Hobart, August 30. A young man named Alfred Britton reported to tho police that while he and another young man, Charles Jones, were J hunting on Mount Faulkner on WedL nesday last, Jones accidentally shot J himself. Britton has now confessed that ho shot Jones. .Ho stated, that after hunt- ~ ing all the morning, the pair made another start in tho afternoon, when a disputo arose about V'ho", was to use ,a " double-barrelled, gun. Jones clicked the hammer of the gun at Britton, and the l latter pointed his gun and pulled tho trigger. Jones fell dead. Britton declares that he did not know the gun was loaded.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1843, 1 September 1913, Page 7
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122SHOOTING FATALITY, Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1843, 1 September 1913, Page 7
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