GIRL FATALLY SHOT.
Hilda Thompson, a child two and -1 half years old, life daughter of a Newcast le-on-Tyne pub:ican, was fatally shot by an elder sister. The father is a pigeon shooter, and his gun was in his bedroom. His eldest daughter took the gun uown to clean it a;u, r.or. k-iovuug it was loaded, paced 11 against the neck ut' her }>. mtt tlsliir and |<ullcd the 1 irigx-r. It Hoed to go oL'\ I- 1 in response to the child's request to "do as dadu does the birds," the elder sistei pulled the trigger again. The gun went off this time, inllicting fatal injuries.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 July 1907, Page 4
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106GIRL FATALLY SHOT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 8 July 1907, Page 4
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