THE CHARLESTON SENSATION
[by electric telegraph.] [per press association]. WESTPORT, This Day. Edwin and Cecil Herring (aged 15 and 9 years), brothers of Lily Herring, killed by gunshot on Saturday, were found last night. -They state they were not in the house when the gun went off. They wore in the garden, and heard tbc shot. They went inside, and found the sister lying dead. They became frightened, and ran away into the bush. It would now appear that the girl was engaged in household duties, and accidentally knocked the gun down and it exploded, killing her.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1906, Page 3
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