ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
A SHOOTING FATALITY. When returning from a day’s shooting on tho Wai-mii-o-mata Hills yesterday afternoon, William Ernest Childs, aged twenty-one, was accidentally shot and died in the hospital. Th» deceased and a friend, H. R. Pritchard, loft Lower Hutt at 8 o’clock in the morning to go shooting on the neighbouring hills and wore returning about 1.30 p.m. Pritchard, who was in the load, had just gone through a fence when ho heard a shot, and turning saw, Childs hanging on to a fence. Ho went back and spoke to him, but got no reply. Ho then took the injured man from the fence, and noticed that a shot from a .22 calibre rifle, which Childs was carrying, had entered thc_ corner of his right eye. With the assistance of two passers-by Childs was conveyed to tho hospital, hut died shortly after.—. Wellington Press Association telegram. A SCHOOLBOY’S DEATH. A schoolboy, Edward Jeffries, aged fourteen, was riding home from school on horseback yesterday when he collided with the Taringamotu Saw-mill Company’s locomotito at a tram line crossing, receiving injuries which proved fatal twenty minutes later.— Taumarunui Press Association telegram.
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Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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