It was Loaded
SERIOUS SHOOTING ACCIDENT
AT NAPIER. WOMEN PLAY WITH REVOLVER. [Feu Press Association.! Napier, August 19. A serious shooting accident occurred last night-. Two young ladies named Iris and Gladys Austin found a revolver in a drawer at a friend’s place, and Gladys thinking it was unloaded playfully pointed it at lisr sister, hut the weapon did not go oil’. Then Mrs Broad pointed it at Gladys and pulled the trigger, and the revolver fired, the bullet penetrating the skull. There is little hope of the victim’s recovery.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 19 August 1914, Page 8
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90It was Loaded Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 19 August 1914, Page 8
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