WESTPORT TRAGEDY.
DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT,
(Par Presa Association.) Westport, last night. Edwin and Cecil Herring (aged 15 and 9 year.-), the brothers of L’ly Herripg, [ killed by a gunshet on Suurday, were | found last night. They state they were not in the house when tho gun went off They we e in the garden, and heard the shot and went inside. They became frightened, and ran away into the bueb. It would now appear tho girl was engaged in household dutiee, and accidentally knocked the gun down, and it oxploded, killing her.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1750, 16 May 1906, Page 2
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91WESTPORT TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1750, 16 May 1906, Page 2
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