BOY SHOT DEAD.
GXTS ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED. (By Telegxapii.—Press A3Bociattoa.) WOODVTLLE, thie day. A five-year-oid son of Mr. John Todd, farmer, of Papatawa. was shot dead on Saturday afternoon. Two brothers were hunting for mice in a storeroom, end a loaded pun taken from a corner wag placed againet a table. The gun fell, and the charge went off, striking the boy in the forehead. Death was instantaneous.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1913, Page 5
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