SHOOTING TRAGEDY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 108, 29 December 1931, Page 5

SHOOTING TRAGEDY

(Press Assn.-

young girl loses her life following pea-rifle accident TRIGGER CAUGHT ON VINE

— By Telegraph— Copyright).

AUCKLAND, Monday. A tragie shooting 'accident resulting in the death of a girl.of 16 years occurred at Te Atatu. The victim was Evelyn Adamson, who was wounded in the forehead, following the discharge of a pea-rifle carried by a boy who was engaged in shooting blackbirds. The accident happened at a farm owned by Mrs J. C. Williamson. Miss Adamson, who resided with her mother on a property about a mile and a-half away from the scene of the fatality, left her home in the morning, and was engaged in picking loganberries with several other young people. She was working between the rows of fruit, when Hubert Hassett, aged 16 years, who had bene shooting the birds that had been eating the ripened berries, was climbing through a row about four yards away. The trigger of the pea-rifle he was carrying caught, and Miss Adamson received the charge in the forehead. Medical assistance was summoned for Miss Adamson seemed to be in" a grave condition. She was conveyed to the Auckland hospital in a van. An operation was performed and the bullet extracted, but the girl died about two hours after admission. Miss Adamson, who was the youngest of five children, was prominent among the young people of the district. ______________