SHOOTING ACCIDENT
LAD FATALLY SHOT BY HIS BROTHER.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day.
A sad shooting fatality occurred on Sunday when two sons of William James Linton, of Toi Toi Valley, were rabbit shooting. The younger son, Derrick, aged 15, got in front of his brother, when the latter was firing, receiving the gun’s discharge in his thigh. He was taken to hospital, where he died.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1939, Page 4
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