Shooting Fatality.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. A young man named Robert H. Needham, a Wellington expressman, was accidentally shot dead while rabbit-shooting at Ohariu yesterday. Needham was handing a gun down the side of a cliff to a companion, holding the weapon by the muzzle. The trigger caught in the branches of a tree, and the gun discharged, the shot striking Needham over the heart. Death was instantaneous. His wife witnessed the accident from an adjoining hillside. He leaves a family of young children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 307, 7 January 1902, Page 2
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