FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7387, 10 June 1895, Page 3

FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT.

DEATH OF A PROMINENT WELLINGTON ATHLETE.

[PBB PBESS ASSOOIATIOW.J

Weli—kotow, This day

A sad case of accidental shooting happened in the Wainuiomata district yesterday mornin». A young man named Herbert Palmer, aged 27, a clerk in the circulation branch of the General Post Office, Wellington, was out pigeon shooting with his brother and two boys. Herbert fired and brought down a pigeon, and rested the trun against his thigh while he put the pigeon in his bag. While doing this.he heard a flutter in a tree above, and snatched the gun to have a shot. As he caught hold of the gun it went off. and he received the charge in his left thigh, the shot blowing a hole clean through it. The poor fellow bled to death in a few minutes, being fully conscioua almost up to the last that the wound was a fatal one. The body was brought into tbe Hutt, Palmar had only returned from 'Frisco, where he had gone for a trip as mail agent

Later.

Palmer was very well known in athletic oi'oles, as a member of the Star Boating Club He had been in several winning regatta crews at Christchurch, Pioton, and Nelson, and was one of the moot popular men in the shed. He was also a prominent member of the Wellington Harriers, and a member of the Wellington Amateur Athletic Society He had several good records as a long distance runner. He was a single man, and resided with his widowed mother here.