DISTRESSING GUN FATALITY.
fCT TELEGRAPH — riIESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON, This Day. A distressing gun accident, which ended fatally, occurred at Mitcham yes- ; terday afternoon, the victim being a 1 lad, 17 years of age, named John Booth, a blacksmith's apprentice. It appears that Booth was m the act of shooting 1 fowls with a breech-loading gun, and, anxious to save a large cartridge which was in the gun, with the hammers up, ho picked up a stone to hitrl at the fowls on the roof of a shed, when the «uu accidentally exploded, and the full charge entered his right side. The lad was^ttiktm to the AshburLon Hospital, where lie died at j5 o'clock this morning.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 137, 11 June 1909, Page 7
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115DISTRESSING GUN FATALITY. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 137, 11 June 1909, Page 7
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