BOY SHOT DEAD
PLAYING "SOLDIERS. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, April 12. While playing a game of soldiers at Oatley, Jack Foster, aged nine, was shot dead by a companion with a pea rifle, which the companion did not know was loaded. In the game Foster was sentenced to death by a mock court martial. A ten-year-old mate picked up the gun to carry out the sentence, but he was horrified when a shot follow;ed his pressure of the trigger. Foster fell dead-with a bullet tlirough the heart.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1931, Page 2
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