TWO CHILDREN SHOT BY THEIR BROTHER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 15, 17 January 1877, Page 4

TWO CHILDREN SHOT BY THEIR BROTHER.

. OnAthe Saturday before Chriatpais Pay, at AFoller ton Cove, near Ne4- , castle, a terrible accident occurred. A -man- named Valentine left home, leaving bis: three childrou behind, wbjo .1 were 1 : af ed respectively a George, II years j, Mary Ann, 6 j.and Jpha, 19'; ifKv ye_rs.- -liter bei left the , chil (,ra|n atrpljed^algngithe beach; and the'etder } ' ,tfAA : --;■'. X . - xx 1

boy, at the inquest on his brother and sister, gave the following account of of the occurrence s — On Saturday after noon he (George Valentine), accompanied by his brother John and sister Mary, went along the beach about four huudred yards from his father's house. The three children played some time on the beach, until the two youngest sat down on a portion of old wreok. George Valentine, seeing a boot a little way off got into it, and then he saw a gun lying on the seat. He examined the gun and saw there was nb/oa^Jmitb¥ nipptaAH lOin looking | round he found a bag containing caps, taod Alacdc|one^)ia % a>|jp!.Oi intending to -frighten hi«- brbiherAabd laietaraby snapping it at them, not believiog the gua to be loaded. ~"He pointed the gun io their direction-, ftiytjpujl«-d the trigger, when Immediately afrerWarda? brother jumped,^* staggered a few paces.. and then 1 fell/ His sister 'fell close to wnera she bad been-^ttfiaffe^THe then ran to them and found Tfcikt both were bleeding from their hMd£ and faces, and h|tjh we-g itnseasjb^e. Jbn^B^gff.J^iii3s in.a h|^|af&fe|M from valentine, and there laid her on a sofa,:a__i fa&Atn^ eaffieiflli^bfbther there. There j»aa no-persou at Johnson's hut^xcept two children, and so he carried Jhi&Qother aaJSialer home, and laid them wher^-they were subsequently found by their father. He luily ! believed, when he presented the guavihat therjetrwasJnbVc&arga'iii, fitjbseause he saw no cap oa.theiiippiejj.^l^v 8* Vrty S^ 8 B^ tßd *^ • i&kr 4&a.S9d J children' had Baslaihed terrible iojuriea. There no leaa iha'u fortyidietid^ gun_fhojt wounds on r.jtha^oy's facej | and abdomen,; and on the girf, ? who had b'een shot tn tne yyes^iface.ahroat, and abdomen. u >'•-