Young MAN Accidentally Shot. (From the Auckland " Star," June 30.)
This afternoon a painful feeling was created in town by the intelligence that a lad named Ford had f-hot himself at North Shore. On inquiry we found that the report was unhappily true, the main facts of the case being as follows : —A young man named Philip Ford, aged 16 years, son of Mr Ford, baker, Devonport, was going out to shoot about noon, accompanied by another lad named Green. They were proceeding tow aid the Is arrow Neck, when they started to run in order to leap a fence which lay in their path. In doing so, Ford slipped and fell, and the fowling piece which he carried, being loaded, was accidentally discharged. The full charge of shot struck him on the head near the ear, and inflicted a deadly wound. The lad Green at once gave the alarm, and had his unfortunate companion taken home, but his injuries were so severe that lie died almost immediately after removal. The occurrence has. created a painful sensation, botli in Devonport and on this side of the harbour.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 57, 5 July 1884, Page 6
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187Young MAN Accidentally Shot. (From the Auckland " Star," June 30.) Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 57, 5 July 1884, Page 6
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