SHOOTING FATALITY
By Telegraph—Press .Association. Christchurch, July 9. i shocking shooting fatality occurred in the Bangiora district yesterday afternoon. The victim was a boy aged 12 years named James Beaton, second son of Mr. Peter Beaton, foreman for Mr. W Cunningham, on the Coldstraun Farm, Gresson's Road. The boy, with an elder brother, "Wilson Beaton, aged 17 years, left at 2 o'clock in the afternoon with a shotgun and pea rillle , , intending to shoot sparrows in some trees about a chain away.' The elder loy shot a sparrow with the pea riHe, and his brother picked up the bird and ran back to the house with it. On Ins return he had to pass along the back of the towlliouse. The elder lad, who was at the far end of 'this building taking aim at a bird high up in the tree, heard his brother coming towards him, ami dropppd the muzzle of the gun. Just as the rifle came down the smaller boy slipped out from behind the building, the trigger was accidentally pulled, and he was shot through the heart, dropping dead on tho snot. The brother rushed to the house and told what he had done. Dr. Burnett was summoned from Kangiorn, and came with all sneed, only to find his services of no avail. ■
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3132, 10 July 1917, Page 6
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