SHOOTING ACCIDENT
YOUNG BANK CLERK KILLED By Telegraph. — Pnzss Association. Auckland, October 6. While Erie Ridgley, 20 years of age, was riding on top of a wagon-load ta posts at Kamarama, near Druiy, yesterday afternoon, with a gun lying beside him, the weapon was :-haken oft the wagon, and in the fall the trigger became caught. One barrel of the gun was discharged, the s b°t entering Ridgeley’s chest. He was brought to Auckland Hospital, where he died during the night. His father is stationmaster at Pahiatua. Deceased was employed as a bank clerk at Fauranga.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 11, 8 October 1923, Page 6
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