SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
LITTLE BOY SHOOTS HIS
SISTER
Wainawa, Thursday
A shocking tragedy occurred at Argyll yesterday afternoon. A sov-en-vear-old hid, during the absence of Ids parents, secured a rifle from a shed, ami playfully ponding it at a fonr-yea.r-oid sister’, pulled the trigger and shot her in tire lace. Nearly lit? whole of the child’s jaw was blown away, and she expired wham the dj’elor arrived. The father, a Native named Pohio, declares that there was no cartridge in tlm rifle when he last had it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2144, 26 June 1920, Page 3
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86SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2144, 26 June 1920, Page 3
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