Distressing Shooting Fatality.
(By Telegraph--Press Association,) Invemarom, Fab, 23. On Thursday evening, a farmer named Neil MoDonald and a friend .named Robertson, went out to shoot wild pigs. They took up kneeling positions among tho oats so as to be ready io fire. While they were so placed a party of four, also after wild , pigs, came up behind MoDonald and ~, \ hi? mate. A youth named Johnston, ..seeing the kneeling men with their 'backs towards him, concluded that they wo pigs, and fired, putting two bullets into McDonald's body; The man died beforo morning. He was 40 years of age, and was only recently married. Johnston has ctfgiven himself up to the police,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4657, 24 February 1894, Page 3
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113Distressing Shooting Fatality. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4657, 24 February 1894, Page 3
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