BROTHER'S STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 388, 24 November 1932, Page 5

BROTHER'S STORY

A PITIABLE MISTAKE Palmerston N., Wednesday. Roy Easton was located about 6,30 p.m. by his father. It appears that after the tragedy, the lad, seeing his brother fall, was seized with panic and fled across the sandhills to the coast. There he spent Tuesday night, subsisting on shell-fish. To-day he worked his way back toward the road which he reached this afternoon. The lad tells a story, of what now appears to be a pitiable accident. It had been his intention to go out shooting after milking. He desired to get finished early The delayed arrival of his brother John from town annoyed him, and whilst milking was in progress they quarrelled over this. Roy said he was going shooting and left the shed. He went to the house for the shot gun and went back by way of the bail to tell his father and brother that they could finish the cows and feed the pigs themselves as he had finished, but in passing, tripped over a saek and the jolt diseharged the gun in his hand. The major portion of the charge entered a post, but a few pellets, and unfortunately the fatal ones, hit his brother, who was sitting o'n a stool milking. Roy said he saw his brother stagger off the stool. Realising that he was hurt, he becanie panic stricken and ran away. His first inquiry when his father found him was whether Jack had been much hurt- The news of his brother's death came as a severe shock on top of his exposure and lack of food.