CHILD SHOT DEAD.
(TOESS ASSOCIATION TE MSG-RAM.) FJjTHAM, January 4. A pitiful accident- occurred this morning, when Joseph John-Robertson, aged two years and eleven months, was shot dead with a pea-riflo by a young companion. aged eight, who is a visitor from Auckland. From what can be learned, the rifle was left in a shed overnight, and childish curiosity prompted the eight-year-old bov to examine jt. with the aforesaid result.:
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15479, 5 January 1916, Page 3
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