FATAL GUN ACCIDENT
PAHIATUA, July 20. Yesterday a man named Read, a saddler at Mav-gatainoka, in company with Constable Sheary, also of Mangatainoka, went out shooting hares. Read asked Sheary what the time was, and the constable changed his gun from under one arm to the other to look at his watch. From some unexplained cause the gun went off, the full charge lodging in Read's thigh,' and inflicting a very bad wound. Read died in the hospital before his depositions could be taken, death being attributed to shock. Deceased, who was about twenty-four years of age, leaves a widow and one child."
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Evening Star, Issue 11943, 20 July 1903, Page 6
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103FATAL GUN ACCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 11943, 20 July 1903, Page 6
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