A SHOOTING FATALITY.
YOUTH KILLED INSTANfILY. While out shooting yesterday after* noon, Roy Loader, a youth of 18, soil of Mrs. John Knowles, of St. Aubyn street, and employed at Messrs Sole Bros., accidentally lout his life. It appears that Loader, accompanied by Jas. Wooller, aged 17, was out shooting over Mr •N'cwton King's Hnrford Road property and while getting-through a wire fsnc*; about 2 -p.m., must have dragged the gun after him, and it went off. the contents entering Loader's left side and deafli being- instantaneous. Dr. Fooke* sad 'a police constablo went out to ths scene of the fatality, but all that could tie done was to have the body taken to . the morgue. An inquest will be neljl.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 4
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121A SHOOTING FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 4
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