ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
LONDON, Oct. 16. Because he believed he had accidently killed his mother, 18-year-old William Dalton, yesterday, shot himself at his lonely' hilltop home, Crooks Seller Farm Westgate, (Co. Durham). He was going out to shoot when his gun accidentally went off and the shot hit Mrs. Dalton in the leg. Dalton thought she was dead, rushed out of the house and shot himself, dying almost at once. Mrs. Dalton died in hospital last night.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 22 November 1939, Page 5
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76ACCIDENTALLY SHOT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 22 November 1939, Page 5
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