SHOT BY ACCIDENT.

Kumara Times, Issue 1140, 25 May 1880, Page 2

SHOT BY ACCIDENT.

‘'fh© North Otago Times of Monday publishes life following acCottnt of a fatal gun accident :-*■ , Yesterday a la4.r yarned Charles Haggle, aged IGyearsi fatally shot himself .by accident. lie was accom* panied ‘by a friend named George Finn, from,, wjiose statement the accident was' ascertained to have occurred as,, follows;—Between 6 and half-past 6. o’clock in the moraing the two lads left Pamauu.in. qilesl of game. Haggle carried a double-barrelled, and Finn a single-barrelled-- gun. They walked to the fcdkanni River, were they fired off several sbo& At about 3 o’clock in the they reached Beidston, distant ajbpqV seven atid a-half miles from -toWfL At Mr O’Grady’s store they ...stopped for ten minutes and had some biscuits. From the store they walked along the rand for half a mile in the direction of Oamaru. After this they entered a paddock) and traversed it for a short distance. On emerging from the pad* dock, Haggle took the lead in crawling through the fence, whereupon Finn handed Him both the guns. As Finn was getting through the fence Haggle was in the act of buttoning up his greatcoat, restinglhegnns against his side. Suddenly the right barrel %f the double gun went off, and the charge entered the point of rib of the right side, forming a wound an inch and a quarter long and an inch ‘wide. On looking up, Finn observed his friend fall to the ground on kis right He then turned on jhis . back, and sung out, “Georgiel Georgia I, I’m dying. Haggle contiued to breathe for bat a few seconds, and then died. Finn took off his overcoat, covered the body with it, and immediately -ran to Mr O’Grady’s, to acquaint him with what had happened. Mr O’Grady jumped on bis horse and . made' for the place where the body lay ; having seen the body, he at w once rode into Oamaru, and gave information to the police.