Fatal Gun Accidents.
(By Telegraph). (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Dec. 26. A party of lads went to Motutapu yesterday rabbit shooting. One of them, Arthur James Harrison, aged 15, bought a gun ut a pawnbroker's for 13s. He was not accustomed to firearms, overloaded it, and it burst, the charge going into his side. He died shortly afterwai'ds. Deceased was a son of Tobias Harrison, shoemaker, Parnell. Christchurch, Dec.27. News has been received of a fatal accident in Gebbie's Valley. Two men named George Hanson and Charles Pym went out shooting yesterday, when the latter shot at a rabbit, but the charge struck Manson on the head, and blew half of his skull off.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 511, 28 December 1897, Page 3
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114Fatal Gun Accidents. Hastings Standard, Issue 511, 28 December 1897, Page 3
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