CUN FATALITY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1001, 13 April 1908, Page 5

CUN FATALITY.

YOUNG MAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. A gun accident occur red t on . the "Watchm%i plsland. v Inner? Harbor, .Napier,^ about 5 o'clock on Sunday .afternoon, resulting in the instantaneous death of Frank Oulton, aged .about 26, a coach painter, in the employment of Henry Williams and .Sonfe, Limited. '.',,'• , • The deceased, accompanied by his and another young man nani*ed Sidney Jqnes> had been shooting : shags on Mie island during the after£fronv Westshore. TE© party were abeut t<j lea.y© it on their nopie jpursinW ;? distressing "fatality occurred.; Jones was already lin^t^ bo&t£3|nd theMeceagea/ carryr - ing-his-gun, was descending the sfceep ■? rocky «dc/of $ie islan<S,wi£h th«* aid 2Of a rwire 1 * rop© * S>lae^*Kefe for? the '* purpose. Harry Oulton being rJpnd •i Frank shouted out to- Jones tjhat it / was a: very stiff jjlace to come 'down, t&nd- 'Jxinjes, replied that it was, but t took- no further notice, his back beI ing ttiri^sd to'tiier descent at th 6 time. v Jones then heard a shot/ and, wheeling- instantly round, saw Frank Oultofl's cap in the, air and his bodjy roll--ing down ihe hill. f The Brother who fcUd'dlsib Sieardj ihe 3K6t,> but ttomght ;."'■ JtCVtfr merely 6ne ; of' the ing at a shag, was. at.pnce summoned by JoneS j arid): on examining, the tody, it .was found that the supper part: 6?' the right side of Frank's head and hjsfibrains had bpefi completely ? b^trti aw^y." It is jsuppdsea that, m desoending, the deceased slipped, and thai by sbine means the trigger, of the gun ! was pulled -and the charge exploded: ". : ' Thfe. body was put in the boat, and taken to Westshore. On arrival there;,'. Obristable. M%ton was at once \ communicated with. The constable took charge of the body, and had it conveyed t<> the mbrguej wher^^n dnquest will probahly be held this *afterncKJri^Herald. ■; "■