A SHOCKING FATALITY.
YOUNC LAD SHOOTS HIS BROTHER. A shooting fatality occurred at Miangprei one day tost week (says the News), by which the eldest son of Mr George Herbert, a. wtelJ-known settler, lost his life. It appears that <che lad, with a younger brother and a companion named Percy Burkett, reached home from school at about 4.30. They found, that their father and mother were away in New Plymouth, and their sister, <a> girl of sixteen years, in charge. The younger brother, named John, got hold of a Martini rifle belonging to Uiis- father, and began to handle it and "play at shooting" on. the verandah. The elder brother took the weapon away from lliim, whereupon the. younger ■went inside, climbed up a wall, and took down a shot gun that his father had, carefully put away, as he thought, out of harm's way. He went outside with it, levelled it at his brother's head in the course of some "playing at shooting," piHed the trigger, and, to his horror, found that it was loaded, and that he (had shot his (brother.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10433, 26 September 1911, Page 6
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183A SHOCKING FATALITY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10433, 26 September 1911, Page 6
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