BOY KILLED BY SHOT
FRIEND FIRED AT RABBIT Through getting in the line of fire when a friend was shooting at a rabbit on a farm at Mount Rex, near Helensville, lan Morris Desmond Grey, aged six, was shot dead with a shotgun wound in his breast. Three other boys bad been milking on Mr. Grey’s farm and after the cows had been turned out one of them saw a rabbit some distance away on the hillside. Douglas Graham, aged 73, slipped into the house, got a shotgun and fired at the animal. Young Grey was sitting in some ti-tree on the hillside just below the rabbit and cut of sight of the boys. The shot went low and killed him. At the time of the accident Mr. and Mrs. Grey were away in Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 9
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135BOY KILLED BY SHOT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 9
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