SHOOTING TRAGEDY.
PLAYING WITH PEA RIFLE,
YOUTH SHOOTS HIS BROTHER. Per Press Association, Nelson, last night.
A shocking fatality occurred at Codingwood last ovening. Two brothers named McGravo wero larking togother when the elder, aged 19, picked up and pointed a pea rifle at tho younger, believing it to be unloaded. Tho weapon went off, and the hvd was shot in tho faco, death resulting, The elder brother was arrested and charged with manslaughter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 922, 22 June 1903, Page 3
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