FATHER’S DREADFUL MISTAKE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 936, 31 December 1910, Page 3

FATHER’S DREADFUL MISTAKE.

ACCIDENTARRY SHOOTS PUS DAUGHTER. An accident of peculiar sadness, \tfhich caused the death of a little gVI- four years old, happened at Julies worth Street. North Melbourne, on the night of December 21st, when Michael A. Hamilton shot his daughter Dorothy, four years, through the centre of the forehead, and killed her. The whole affair was over in a moment, and, according to Hamilton, who, when interviewed by the police, was in a stale of distraction, it was the outcome of a dreadful mistake. He was handling a revolver when his little daughter approached the table at which he sat, and said ; ” Ret me see it. Daddy. How does it shoot ?” Hamilton began to explain to the child how the weapon worked, and, thinking it was unloaded, cocked it and pulled the trigger. A cartridge was in the revolver, and the bullet'pierced the child’s forehead. She fell, and a stream of blood rilled from the wound. A doctor was called in, and he, finding that the child was not dead, hurried her off in his motorcar to the Children’s Hospital, where Dr. O’Brien, who admitted her, performed an operation to extract the bullet Nothing, however, could save the child. The bullet was embedded deep in her brain, and she sank and died soon after the operation.