CHILD FATALLY SHOT.
MOTHER’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. » Auckland, Yesterday. Bruce James Garner, aged seven years, whose parents reside at Ponsonby, was fatally shot with a rifle while playing with other children in a room at his home this afternoon. The rifle belonged to his father and it is not known how it came to be loaded. It was held by a boy cousin of deceased when it exploded!. The mother heard a muffled report and thought it was a door slamming, but on hearing screams from the children, rushed in to make the tragic discovery. The child died an hour later.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3842, 8 September 1928, Page 1
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100CHILD FATALLY SHOT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3842, 8 September 1928, Page 1
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