FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDEHT.
0 [BX TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON, This Day. A fatal shooting accident occurred near Staveley yesterday afternoon, the victim being' a youth about 15 years of age named Alfred Healey. It appears that the deceased was testing the ground through a swampy place with the butt end of a gun, when it went off, the full charge shattering the ,jalm of one of his hands a-nd forearm, and entering his right side. Death occurred shortly after his removal to his home.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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