SHOOTING FATALITY
YOUTH LOSES LIFE. TRAGIC END TO PIG HUNT. , (By Telegraph—Press Association.) - OTOROHANGA, May 1. A fatal shooting accident occurred at Rangitoto, Otorohanga, on Sunday evening. The victim was:— Maitland Edward Lowther Prentice, aged 17, grocery assistant, of Te Kuiti. With four companions, all of whom are residents of Te Kuiti, Prentice spent the day pig-shooting on the Davenport estate, Rangitoto, and at 6 p.m. was preparing to return home. He was standing near the ’ motor-car in which the party had travelled and was holding a revolver of small calibre. The weapon was accidentally discharged and the bullet entered Prentice’s body. His friends placed him in the car and hastened to Otorohanga, about 15 miles away, for assistance, but he died on the way. The youth was a son of Mr V. E. Prentice, a railway employee, of Te Kuiti.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 4
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