Distressing Shooting Fatality.
(PKB PIIESS ASSOCIATION.) InVEBCAUGiII, February 23. On Thursday evening a farmer living at Wyndhani Valley, Neil McDonald, and a friend named Robertson went out io shoot wild pigs, which had been destroying the oats in stook. They took np kneeling positions among the oats so as to be ready to fire. While they were so placed a party of four, who had scoured a good bit of country after the pigs, came up behind McDonald and his mate. One of the newcomers, a youth named Johnston, seeing the kneeling men with their bncks to him, concluded that they were pigs and fired, putting two bullets into McDonald's body, Jone through the shoulder, and the other through the loins. The man died before morning. He was forty years of age, and was only recently married. Johnston has given himself up to the police. __ _^ — __—
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 3
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