SHOT DEAD IN PLAY.
! ,y ;j V ' TRIFLING WITH LOADED GUN. While playing'.- with, a- gun which ho did nob'-know to bo loaded a farm labourer iiamed . Lawrence Redfearn' on February .10 ■i®hot dead, the daughter- of his employer, ,a bright,, little girl of • eleven', named -'Emily Beatrice Whitoley, at Cha'ilipnoy, Hill Farm, Dodwortli. ,' . Mr. apd Mrs. Whiteieyi. were away visiting some friends, and . Redfearn, in a moment ot" < brnvado, took the -,guu .down frpm tho, kitchen wall and coiumenced teasing tho girl -and a domestic servant. - Ho lired sevon or eight sulphur matches by placing .them.,undpr.the.liainnibr and pulling tho tnggor without any harm' resulting, but while firing [mother match and aiming at -the child the charge in the' gun exploded. Ilie shot entered the girl's head above tjiei l'lgiit eye, causing instant death. :' ■ ,- • Frantic with terror, Redfearn ran for' a doctor, who pronouQced ■ life to bo 1 extinctj and hoaring this, v. Redfearn -apparently took fright and fled. ■ '■ :'i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10
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160SHOT DEAD IN PLAY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 10
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