Fatal Gun Accident.
SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN. (Per Press Association.) Wellington. This Day. A sad case of accidental shooting happened in the Wainniomata district yesterday morning. A young man named Herbert Palmer, 27 years of age, a Clerk in the circulation branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, was out pigeon shooting with his brother and two boys, j Herbert fired and brought down a pigeon and rested his gun against his thigh while he put it in the bag. While doing this he heard a flutter in a tree above and snatched his gun to have a shot. As he caught hold of the gun it went off and he received the charge in his left tbigb, the shot blowing a hole clean through. The poor fellow bled to death in a few minutes, being fully conscious up to the last, that the wound was fatal. The body was brought into the Hutt. Palmer had only recently returned from 'Frisco where he had gone for a trip as Mail Agent. Palmer was very well known in athletic circles as a member of the Star Boating Club and he had been in several of the winning regatta crews at Christchurch, Picton, and Nelson and was one of the most popular men in the sheds. He was also a prominent member of the Wellington harriers, and a member of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Society. He was a single man, and resided with his widowed mother here.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 288, 10 June 1895, Page 3
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247Fatal Gun Accident. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 288, 10 June 1895, Page 3
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