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SAD SHOOTING ACCINDENT.

At 9 o'clock on Thursday morning May Smith aged five years, daughter of Mr' Samuel F. Smith (employod at Bailey's sawmill, Manganolio) was shot dead by her brother Harry aged nine, It appears two loaded guns wore standing in the porch at her father's residence and as the little one was stopping to tie her shoe her brother acchlontly discharged one of the guns the contents of which struck heron the left shoulder penetrating the left lung and throat, death being almost |instaiitancous,-as she only lived a 'quarter of an hour. Dr Smith was promply in attendance, but found life extinct, Much syinpathay is expressed for the bcroaved parents.— Mercury.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4731, 28 May 1894, Page 3

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SAD SHOOTING ACCINDENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4731, 28 May 1894, Page 3

SAD SHOOTING ACCINDENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4731, 28 May 1894, Page 3

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