SHOT BY DADDY
FATAL GUNPLAY WITH A LITTLE BOY. i A. fatal gun accident was .investigated recently by the Yarmouth coroner. Eric Barber,. aged three, took hold j of the barrel of a gun standing in a corner of the kitchen and said to his father: "Daddy, I will shoot you." The father, Edward Barber, an ex-soldier, playfully retorted: "I will shoot you." He took the gun, which h? put to bis shoulder, when it went off and the child fell dead at the feet of his mother. Barber had forgotten that ha had left a. cartridge in the gun. A verdict of accidental death wis recorded,
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 101, 22 January 1918, Page 2
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107SHOT BY DADDY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 101, 22 January 1918, Page 2
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