ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
DEATH OF MAORI VETERAN. Gisborne, Feb. 25, Wm. I*. Stephenson, aged 85 years, a Maori veteran, and one of the oldest residents of Poverty Bay, was accidentally shot in the abdomen to day, and died before reaching the hospital. Mr Stephenson intended to shoot a dog which had been worrying his sheep and it is believed that when dismounting from his buggy the reins caught in the trigger of the gun, with fatal results.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1515, 26 February 1916, Page 3
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76ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1515, 26 February 1916, Page 3
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