BOY SHOT DEAD.
OLDER BROTHER DISAPPEARS. (UNITED TEEBS ASSOCIATION—BY VXECT&IO TELEGRAPH -COPYRIGHT.) MELBOURNE, December 26. While his mother was in the city on Monday buying toys for Christmas, Jack Pope, aged 10, was shot dead in his home ut Moorabbin. Shortly after the tragedy an older brother, Philip, aged 14, left the house, and has not been seen since. The fatal weapon, a shotgun, had one barrel discharged, Five other young children who were in the house vwere unable to say how the shooting occurred. They only knew that Philip had gone saying that he would tell his mother and the police of the shooting, The father was awav at work. The mother returned to find Jack lying in the passage. The gun had been replaced on the nail on which it hung in the father's room.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 27 December 1928, Page 8
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