Shocking Fatal Accident
1 PEB DNITKD PBF.SB ASSOCIATION, i Wkeunotoj*. February 19. A shocking fatal accident occurred in 1 the Upper Belmont Hutt district. A 1 little boy, aged 10, a son of John Straton, was in a house with his sister Maud, of nine, and got his father's rifle from the i bedroom and a carthridge. He must have loaded the rifle, as he says it was full cock, and he accidentally touched the , trigger, blowing the top of his sister's head off. The girl fell down dead. The father and mother were away at the time.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 96, 19 February 1889, Page 2
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