SHOOTING FATALITY
A UNFORTUNATE RESULT OF A "JOKE." By TWesrauh.—Press ABnociation. . Gisborne, October 23. Information was received in Gisbonie this afternoon that a shooting fatality had occurred at To Karaka, tlio victim being Harold Powell, twenty years of age. It ie elated that deceased was practising revolver shooting with a friend, and threatened to shoot himself, intending to uso an ompty chamber, a joke he had played previously. Unfortunately tho wrong chamber was used. Powell died soon afterwards,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 6
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78SHOOTING FATALITY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 6
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