FATALITIES.
[per press association.] Wanoanui, This day. Alfred Butchings, 23, was found unconscious on the road near Mangamahu yesterday afternoon. He had evidently fallen from his horse, aud was badly hurt. He was brought into the hospital last nigbt, and died this morning. He received a severe fracture of the base of the skull. Hawera, This day. A sad accident, with a fatal ending, occurred yesterday at the Normanby sports. A boy named Walter Peebles, aged fifteen, whose parents reside at Eltham, was watching a competition at a shooting gallery run by a man named Thomas Gilroy, when the pea-rifle exploded and the shot entered the boy'a stomach. A doctor was telephoned for and the boy's removal to the Hawera hospital was ordered, but while the journey was being made Peebles died. Gilroy, who only purchased the gallery, on Saturday, was arrested on a charge of manslaughter, bail being refused. An inquest will be held to-day.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9951, 27 December 1900, Page 8
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