FATAL ACCIDENT.
A FATHER SHOOTS HIS SON. (ftv TKLKOKAI'H — I'ItKSS ASSOCIATION,) I ).\NICVIKKE, L ist Night. A shocking accident oceurre i here yesterday. A in in named Smith, a bush contractor, was out shooting with his two sous, and they were coming home to dinner, when the father said he mii-t, get another bird. Til-', youngest | JllVi hVederick Charles, rushed by, saying, " I see a pigeon," and immediately the gun went off, the charge enterin.' (he head o! the, boy, who was eleven ye us old, b'hiud the ear, killing him instantly. The lad was only a few feet distant at the time. An inquest was held to-day. and a vwdict of Accidental death " was returned.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2967, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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116FATAL ACCIDENT. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2967, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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