Shot in Feilding Camp.
TERMINATION OF A NIGHT ATTACK. * During a night attack on Saturday night on the Camp of Instnetlow of.. Manchester Rifles, Volunteer ; Percy Crawford, aged 17, was shot dead by one of the attacking party, who, by misadventure, substituted a ball for a blank cartridge. Deceased was in a tent alone at the time. The body was . not discovered until five o’clock on Sunday morning. Deceased was a son of Mr R. Crawford, blacksmith. In reference to the above, subsequent investigation resulted in a discharged ball cartridge ease being found in one of the heaps of empty cartridges lying where the members of the corps had been firing. No explanation as to how the cartridge came into possession of the person firing it or anything relating to its possession has yet been disclosed but an inquest on the body, and Into the circumstances surrounding the fatal event was to have been held at Feilding on Monday before Captain Mowlcm, District Coroner. The bullet, it is stated, passed first through the tent in which Crawford was, through both temples and out of the tent at the back.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1902, Page 2
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189Shot in Feilding Camp. Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1902, Page 2
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