YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH
FOUND DEAD AVITH A REVOLVER BESIDE HER. THOUGHT TO BE AN ACCIDENT. DUNEDIN, January 9. Early this morning Catherine AI. Alead,* aged 15 years, shot noised through tho breast at her parents residence, St. Kilda. It aounais that deceased’s mother xobuxccl her at 9 o’clock last evening for ooing out late. This morning the mother found her at 5.45 sitting, half-dres-sed, nil the bed. A little while aftor the mother heard a shot, and rushing in found her daughter collapsed on the floor, with a loaded six-chambered revolver besulc -icr, one chamber being discharged. She was quite dead. . .... Deceased’s father is an artilleryman. He has been working at tlie Heads lately. Ho states that the women were suffering from a burglar scare, and ho had been m the habit of having 'his revolver close at hand. He thinks that his daughter was tinkering with the weapon when it explod cd.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2085, 10 January 1908, Page 1
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