TERRIBLE SHOOTING ACCIDENT.
FARMER'S WIFE KILLED
By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Received this day, 9.35 a.m. Sydney, This Day. A terrible shooting fatality is reported at Craigie, near Bombala. Mrs Elton, wife of a farmer, was washing clothes when a neighbour's son named Clarke, aged thirteen, entered and picked up a gun which Elton had left. The gun exploded and the charge struck tho woman on the head, killing her instantly.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 566, 10 May 1913, Page 5
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69TERRIBLE SHOOTING ACCIDENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 566, 10 May 1913, Page 5
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