SHOOTING FATALITY.
BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY ' HIS BROTHER. Christchurch, July 9, A shocking shooting fatality occurred in the Bangiora district yesterday afternoon. The . victim was a boy aged 12 years named James Beaton, second son of Mr Refer Beaton, foreman for Mr \Y. Cunningham on the Coldstream Earm, Bresson's road. The boy, with an elder brother, Wilson Beaton, uged 17 years, left at 2 o’clock in the afternoon with a shotgun and pea-rilie, intending to shoot sparrows in some trees about a chain away. The elder boy shot a spar-, row with the pca-rillo, and his brother picked up the bird and ran back to the house with it. On his return he had to pass along the hack of the fowl-house. The older lad, who was at the far end of this building, taking aim at a bird high up in the tree, beard his brother coming towards him, and dropped the muzzle of the gun. Just as the rifle came down, the smaller boy slipped out from behind the building, the trigger was accidentally
pulled, and he was shot through the heart, dropping dead on the spot. The brother rushed to the house and told what he had done. Dr. Burnett was summoned from Ranglora, and came with all speed, only to find his services of no avail.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 10 July 1917, Page 3
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220SHOOTING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1736, 10 July 1917, Page 3
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