SHOOTING FATALITY.
MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.
(Per Press Association.) Mastorton, last night.
A fatal gtra accident happened on the propetty of Mr Wingate, near Xenui, on Wednesday evening. A laborer, Robert Jones, thirty-two years of age, was loading a gun with cartridges a size 100 large, and had tried to force tbe breach close with the muzzle pointing towards himself, with the result that the gun went off, putting both charges into his body. He died immediately. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased was a single man, a native of Yorkshire, and had no relations in the colony \
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 3
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