FATAL GIFT
BRITISH SOLDIER & WIFE SHOT DEAD BY SIX-YEAR-OLD SON. CARTRIDGE GIVEN TO CHILD AS SOUVENIR. ißv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) ’ (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. Herbert Dick, aged six, of Hull, killed his father and mother with a cartridge his soldier father had just given him as a war souvenir, Neighbours, hearing a shot, rushed in, to find the boy holding his father’s rifle. His parents lay dead on the floor, a bullet having passed through both bodies.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6
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81FATAL GIFT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6
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