BOY FATALLY SHOT
ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE (By Telegraph.—special to Times) AUCKLAND, Monday When a shotgun accidentally discharged at his home on Saturday, Eric Samuel Braithwaite, aged 13, son of Mr and Mrs G. V. Braithwaite, of Wellsford, received fatal wounds. The parents, together with the boy and a younger brother, were on the verandah, and it is thought that the two boys had handled the gun, which was standing in a corner. Hearing a shot the parents were horrified to find the elder boy stretched on the floor with a wound in the left jaw. He was dead when a doctor arrived. FATE OF TRAMPER KILLED BY FALLING ROCK (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday Apparently struck by a piece of falling rock as he walked through the Manganui Gorge, Mount Egmont, this afternoon, Mr Oswald Joseph Riley, aged 25, of Stratford, received head injuries from which he died about two hours later in the Stratford Hospital. Mr Riley was the last member of a party of four, none of whom saw the rock fall.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 9
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175BOY FATALLY SHOT Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21219, 16 September 1940, Page 9
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