CASUALTIES.
CARELESS USE OF FIREARMS. (l'-£SS ASSOCIATION" .E_EG_A_S.I DUNEDIN, April 18. An inquest was held to-day touching the death of George C. H. Victor Brookes, fifteen : * ins of age. The evidence showed that the lad purchased ■a toy pistol, and inserted a cartridge in it. The hammer being stiff, lie placed the muzzle ajrain-t his stomach, and tried to push the hammer back, when it- slipped, and the charge exploding, the bullot entered his abdomen, end probably lodg;<.-d in the muscles of the back. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a rider expressing the need for some legislative enactment, by which indiscriminate sale cf fire arms, particularly to juveniles, should be curtailed.
HAMILTON, April 18. Mr Hursthouse, Chief Engineer of Roads, was taken to Waikato Hospital yesterday, suffering from gastric hemorrhage.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12482, 19 April 1906, Page 8
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