Another Tragedy in Wellington.
[Per Press Association.] Wellinoton, Thi9 Day. A man walking along Polhill's gully was accosted this morning by a boy named John Bolton, who asked him to" take him to the Police station as he had done something terrible. Enquiry showed he had intended to celebrate his father's birthday by shootiug pigs and took some cartridges and a revolver from the drawer, not knowing the latter was loaded. On the way he met another boy named Allen Smith, and after a short conversation apparently about some sort of fight they had been engaged iv, he pointed the revolver at Smith. It went off aud struck the poor lad in the cheek. Bolton ran away iv a fright aud asked the expressman to take him to the Police station, but he refused. Smith is iv a dangerous condition ot the hospital.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 255, 5 March 1894, Page 2
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143Another Tragedy in Wellington. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 255, 5 March 1894, Page 2
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