SHOOTING FATALITY.
Invercargill, Last Night. A distressing fatality occurred at Wallacetown on Tuesday evening, when Ernest Galbraith Townsend, IS years of age, accidentally shot himself in the head while out shooting rabbits. Deceased slept in a lint a short distance from bis parents' residence, and ns he was to attend a dance that night his absence was not noticed. This morning his sister discovered him lying near a fence with a gunshot wound in the head, which had proved fnlal. I| is thought that deceased was getting through a fence when the trigger caught on a wire, causing the gun to discharge.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2866, 2 April 1925, Page 3
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102SHOOTING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2866, 2 April 1925, Page 3
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