"I'LL SHOOT YOU."
BOY'S TERRIBLE DuiED. SHOOTS HIS MOTHER. By Telegraph—Pi ess Association. CHRISTCHUKCH, August 13. At 2.30 o'clock this afternoon a boy named Thomas Crosbery, about fifteen years of age, fatally shot his mother with a pea rifle. It appears that Mrs Crosbery had occasion to reprimand the boy for some trivial duty he had omitted to perform, and the boy took up the pea rifle, and pointing it at his mother said, "I'll shoot you." The weapon went off, and the bullet entered the right cheek, worked its way downwards, and out or left jaw.
Assistance was forthcoming, and Mrs Crosbery was removed to the hospital, in an unconscious state, where she died an hour and a half later.
The boy explained to the police t;hat he forgot that he had inserted a cartridge in the weapon in the morning far the purpose of shooting sparrows. He had also pointed the rifle at hi- married sister the night before, and playfully said he would shoot her.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9568, 14 August 1909, Page 5
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168"I'LL SHOOT YOU." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9568, 14 August 1909, Page 5
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