Two Sad Shooting Accidents.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 346, 22 June 1894, Page 3

Two Sad Shooting Accidents.

A terrible shooting accident occurred at Rhigmy, by which a lad named Robert Wallace, aged 14, was fatally injured. Wallace with another lad named Pringle, 17 years, was out shooting rabbits. Pringle, when only five yards distant from his companion, pointed a gun at him " for tun," thinking it was not loaded. Wallace walked a step or two forward to snatch the weapon, when it went off, and the lad received tbe whole charge in the groin. The unfortunate fellow shortly after expired. Another shooting accident is reported from Perth. Three children of T. Ostle were present when some goods were being unloaded at their house from a cart. Amongst the articles was a gun. Thinking it was unloaded, the eldest child, a f»irl aged 10, picked it up and pointed it at her sister, aged five. The weapon exploded, the whole of the charge being lodged in the little girl and her brother, about eight, who was standing close behind her. Both children were terribly injured in the legs. The little girl who had fired fainted and fell into a brook close by, but on recovering her senses she scrambled out of the water. Hearing her brother and sister screaming, she went to their assistance, and pulling off her pinafore, bound up the leg of her brother. Then taking off her dress, she tore a strip from it and bound up her sister's injured knee. She then carried tbe child to a houso. about 400 yards off, and afterwards went for her brother, but he was in too much pain to be moved, and preferred to stay where he had falleu. The little girl then ran through the bush, a distance of two miles, to where her parents where, and told them of what had happened. Medical aid was summoned, and the children were attended to. — Post.