FATALLY SHOT.
. — (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. Charles Flanders, aged' 19, met wilh a fatal accident whilst duck shooting this morning. Deceased slipped when crossing a deep drain, and tried to haul himself out by pulling the trigger guard against the bottom wire of a fence alongside. The gun was loaded, and the charge lodged m the young man's neck. Death was instantaneous.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13063, 1 May 1913, Page 6
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64FATALLY SHOT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13063, 1 May 1913, Page 6
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