SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT.
[per press association.] BALCLUTHA, Oct 23. A number of Willmott’s Combination Troupe here at present, intended going rabbit shooting this morning, Frank Hey wood, pianist, when getting his gun ready in the bedroom of the Criterion Hotel was blowing down the barrel to ascertain if it was clear, Frank Simmons, another of the troupe, holding a lighted match at the nipple. The shot wont off in Heywood’s mouth and out of the crown of the head throwing abroad the brain and portions of the skull in all directions. Death was instantaneous.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1103, 24 October 1883, Page 2
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