SAD SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1746, 12 June 1895, Page 2

SAD SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

rt - Wellington, Juno 10. A sad case of accidental shooting hap’pened in the Wainuiomata distinct yesterday morning. A young man narqed Herbert Palmer, aged 27, clerk in the Circulation Branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, was out pigeon shooting with his brother and two boys. Herbert fired and brought down a pigeon, and rested his gun against his thigh while he put it in his bag. While doing this he heard |i flutter in the tree above and'snatched the gun so have a shot. As he caught Loid of the gun it went off, and he received the charge in the lift thigh, the shot blowing a hole clean through. "The poor fellow bled to death in a fhinutes, being fully conscious almost to the last that the' wound was fa,tal. The body was brought'into Hutt. H=,.Palmer had only recently returned from ’Frisco, where he had gone for a trip as mail agent, v '• Later. Palmer is very well known in athletic circles as a member of tbe Star Boating Club. He had been in several Winning regatta-crews at Christchurch, Picton, and Nelson, and was one of vthe most popular men in the shed. He was also a prominent member of the Wellington Harriers, and as a member of the . Wellington Athletic Society had several good records as a long distance runner. He was a single man and resided with a widowed mother here.