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SHOOTING FATALITY

(By 'telegraph—Freu Association#

CAMBRIDGE, Last Night. A party of four young men, wtMat out .from Cambridge driving tbis jnofAing in the direction of Matataking with them a Winchester .rifle to shoot rabbits. Whilst.-stop-ping by the/roadside for lunch, one of the party named William Booth, age# 26, a native of Dundee, Scotland, employed at Cambridge as a, journeyman tailor, went to the conveyance to got the gun, which suddenly went off, all*] the bullet passed through Booth'# throat, severing .the jugular-vein. Ho died in a few niimites,- ; jJ3ootli had-re-cently been using the; gus; and 4 pro sumably had left it in the vehicle loaded aH<j cocked. The.body was brought into Cambridge, and an Inquest wilt be held to-morrow.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 9 December 1912, Page 4

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SHOOTING FATALITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 9 December 1912, Page 4

SHOOTING FATALITY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 9 December 1912, Page 4

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