A TRAGEDY
' Y : , A GIRL SHOT
(United Press Association—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received this' day fit 115 a.m.)
LONDON, August 15.
'Seeing a child' crying because its ball was carried out to sea, Jean Ohestei'oii, 15, and her sister, Joan, 18, residents .'of (Ilford, holidaying at Keys-down, Kent, .rowed a quarter of a riiiie 5Tf-d recovered it in the lieigh- ; bourhoochof a row of buoys which the ajr force had used as targets since the war. Suddenly/ five tewitorUal planes arrived' and begad machine gunning ■ the buoys. , One, mistaking the Chesterton's boat'for a target, filed a burst, .hitting Jean, who c-rumpled* up in th<j stern. Other .bullets, pierced the boat. Jba. n signalled (the planes, .iahd pulled full speed ashore In the hope of saving .’Her ' (siistev’js . life.. ' A 'territorials ambulance and doctor met the boat and found Jean had been killed instantly. They'carried Joan, who callapsed, to the .bungalow of the grief stricken mother. • ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1933, Page 6
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154A TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1933, Page 6
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