SHOT BY OWN GUN.
FEILDING YOUTH’S FATAL TRIP. Feilding, December, 7. A distressing shooting fatality occurred at Waitata, 12 miles from Feilding yesterday. Basil Kitchen, aged 19, employed on a farm, was out shooting, and did not return. A search being made the body was found at 4 o’clock this morning. He evidently tripped over a rata root and the gun exploded, and the charge entered his head. Death was instantaneous.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2972, 8 December 1925, Page 3
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71SHOT BY OWN GUN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2972, 8 December 1925, Page 3
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