FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.
*!"'':'' ;MrVGirdleatone is dead. 'The deceased borrowed Mr Villers' gun to shoot bitterns. : A man named Groves saw Mm afterwards ■walking , along the base of. the hill not far from where the targets are. He saw the gun go off, and Mr Girdlestone fall over. The man Groves considers it was an accident. He went over and found him dead, with the gun hanging on the wire fence. Mr Giraies.tqtfo was getting through the fence, and the shot penetrated the right breast.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4062, 29 July 1884, Page 3
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84FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4062, 29 July 1884, Page 3
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